US Patent Issued to RESTORE VISION on April 21 for "Nucleic acid construct that encodes chimeric rhodopsin" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,606, issued on April 21, was assigned to RESTORE VISION INC. (Tokyo).

"Nucleic acid construct that encodes chimeric rhodopsin" was invented by Toshihide Kurihara (Tokyo), Yusaku Katada (Tokyo), Kazuo Tsubota (Tokyo) and Hideki Kandori (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a nucleic acid including a nucleic acid sequence encoding a chimeric protein including at least part of an ion-transporting receptor rhodopsin and at least part of a G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin and a nucleic acid sequence encoding a signal sequence; and a nucleic acid including a nucleic acid sequence encoding a chimeric protein inclu...