US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University on July 28 for "Drug-controlled systems and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,096, issued on July 28, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University.

"Drug-controlled systems and uses thereof" was invented by John T. Ngo (Cambridge, Mass.), Mary Dunlop (Newton, Mass.), Elliot Parker Tague (Brookline, Mass.), Nathan Michael Tague (Brookline, Mass.) and Alexander Michael Marzilli (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed to polypeptide systems using drug-controlled peptide docking domains and cognate docking domain-binding peptides and their use to control cellular signaling, activity, and/or gene expression."

The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2023, under Applica...