US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 27 for "Ultra-sensitive step-function opsin for minimally invasive optogenetic stimulation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,442, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Ultra-sensitive step-function opsin for minimally invasive optogenetic stimulation" was invented by Guoping Feng (Cambridge, Mass.), Xin Gong (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan Ting (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for minimally invasive optogenetic stimulation. More particularly, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods for using an ultra-sensitive step-function opsin for minimally invasive optogenetic s...