ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,068, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sono Thera Inc. (South San Fransisco, Calif.).

"Biologic agents and methods of use" was invented by Ivan Krivega (Burlingame, Calif.), Margarita Krivega (South San Francisco, Calif.), Kenneth Greenberg (Berkeley, Calif.) and Steven B. Feinstein (Highland Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are nucleic acid compositions and methods of use. The nucleic acid compositions may have a therapeutic nucleic acid sequence operably linked to a nuclear targeting sequence that increases expression of the therapeutic nucleic acid in a cell by at least 1.25 fold; at least 80% sequence ide...