US Patent Issued to Reflection Biotechnologies on March 31 for "Cellular models of and therapies for ocular diseases" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,320, issued on March 31, was assigned to Reflection Biotechnologies Ltd. (Pak Shek Kok, Hong Kong).

"Cellular models of and therapies for ocular diseases" was invented by Richard R. Yang (Pak Shek Kok, Hong Kong) and Stephen H Tsang (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for treating or preventing diseases of the eye such as Bietti's Crystalline Dystrophy (BCD) using, for example, vectors for delivering a gene encoding a CYP4V2 protein to the retina (for example, to the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells) or using cells comprising such vectors."

The patent was filed on July 31, 2018, under Applicat...