US Patent Issued to James Summerton Living Trust dated May 15, 2008 on March 31 for "Compositions and methods for suppressing intracellular synthesis of the beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,308, issued on March 31, was assigned to James Summerton Living Trust dated May 15, 2008 (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Compositions and methods for suppressing intracellular synthesis of the beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin" was invented by Janet Helena Kinion (Corvallis, Ore.) and James E. Summerton (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition of matter includes an antisense phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (MO) that includes an MO base sequence. The MO base sequence is arranged to bind a corresponding complementary base sequence of messenger RNA (mRNA) transcribed from one or more genes for the beta subuni...