US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo on July 14 for "RNA molecule, chimeric NA molecule, double-stranded RNA molecule, and double-stranded chimeric NA molecule" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,101, issued on July 14, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"RNA molecule, chimeric NA molecule, double-stranded RNA molecule, and double-stranded chimeric NA molecule" was invented by Kumiko Ui-Tei (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Kaoru Saigo (Tokyo), Yukikazu Natori (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Sato (Tokyo) and Yoshimasa Asano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to provide novel RNA molecules, chimeric NA molecules, double-stranded RNA molecules, and double-stranded chimeric NA molecules. Specifically, an embodiment of the present invention is an RNA molecule for RNA interference t...