US Patent Issued to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on April 21 for "Engineered viral capsid polypeptides and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,847, issued on April 21, was assigned to PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

"Engineered viral capsid polypeptides and uses thereof" was invented by Eric Kelsic (Cambridge, Mass.), Sam Sinai (Somerville, Mass.) and George M. Church (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein provides variant adeno-associated viral capsid polypeptides and viruses comprising the same. Further provided herein are methods for delivering a viral payload using viruses comprising variant capsid polypeptides described herein. Described herein are viral vectors comprising a variant sequence of the capsid gene, VP1. ...