US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 19 for "Compositions and methods of treatment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,805, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods of treatment" was invented by David V. Schaffer (Danville, Calif.), Melissa A. Kotterman (Berkeley, Calif.), Bum-Yeol Hwang (Moraga, Calif.) and James T. Koerber (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides infectious recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) virions that comprise a variant capsid protein and a heterologous nucleic acid. The present disclosure further provides the variant adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid proteins (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the variant ...