US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 23 for "Conjugates comprising AAVs and CAS9 polypeptides" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,525, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Conjugates comprising AAVs and CAS9 polypeptides" was invented by Leah Byrne (Pittsburgh), Bilge Esin Ozturk (Pittsburgh) and Timothy Day (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the invention provides an Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) comprising an exterior surface, which surface comprises one or more peptide tags that form a bond with a binding-partner, wherein the AAV is a live virus. In another embodiment, the inv...