US Patent Issued to The University of Western Australia on Aug. 18 for "Antisense molecules and methods for treating pathologies" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,749, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The University of Western Australia (Crawley, Australia).

"Antisense molecules and methods for treating pathologies" was invented by Stephen Donald Wilton (Applecross, Australia), Sue Fletcher (Bayswater, Australia), Abbie Adams (Kalamunda, Australia) and Penny Meloni (Mount Hawthorn, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antisense molecule capable of binding to a selected target site to induce exon skipping in the dystrophin gene, as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 to 59."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/817,588.

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