US Patent Issued to James Summerton on Sept. 1 for "Compositions and methods for suppressing intracellular synthesis of the beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,896, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to James Summerton (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 includes at least the base sequence gcagcccctggaacat (SEQ ID NO: 8) and is arranged to bind a corresponding complementary base sequence of messenger RNA (mRNA) transcribed from...