US Patent Issued to JOINT STOCK COMPANY "BIOCAD" on Aug. 4 for "Codon-optimized nucleic acid encoding SMN1 protein" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,511, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to JOINT STOCK COMPANY "BIOCAD" (Saint Petersburg, Russia).

"Codon-optimized nucleic acid encoding SMN1 protein" was invented by Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Madera (Moscow), Pavel Mikhailovich Gershovich (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Anna Sergeevna Veselova (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Tatiana Evgenievna Shugaeva (Moscow), Maria Andreevna Lomunova (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Margarita Aleksandrovna Shkliaeva (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and Dmitry Valentinovich Morozov (Saint Petersburg, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the fields of genetics, gene therapy, and molecula...