US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on May 12 for "AAV6 variants" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,367, issued on May 12, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"AAV6 variants" was invented by Mavis Agbandje-McKenna (Gainesville, Fla.), Antonette D. Bennett (Gainesville, Fla.) and Robert McKenna (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to variant AAV6 particles engineered to escape host neutralizing antibodies but retain or improve transduction efficiency, and their use as gene delivery vehicles."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2019, under Application No. 17/042,865.

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