US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on July 14 for "Synthetic promoters for gene therapy and protein expression" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,111, issued on July 14, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Synthetic promoters for gene therapy and protein expression" was invented by Yang Wang (Wellesley, Mass.), Mark S. Klempner (Boston), Monir Ejemel (Medfield, Mass.), Qi Li (Westwood, Mass.) and Zuoshang Xu (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides synthetic promoters and methods of using the same."

The patent was filed on March 11, 2022, under Application No. 18/281,703.

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