ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,641, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to VOYAGER THERAPEUTICS INC. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Tau binding compounds" was invented by Todd Carter (Winchester, Mass.), Jinzhao Hou (Lexington, Mass.), Vinodhbabu Kurella (Woburn, Mass.), Allan D. Capili (Somerville, Mass.), Wencheng Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Hiu Yan Chung (Boston), Jerrah Holth (Sudbury, Mass.), Dillon Kavanagh (Cambridge, Mass.) and Maneesha Anand Paranjpe (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides anti-tau antibodies and vectorization thereof (e.g., into AAV particles). Also provided are methods of using anti-tau antibodies and/or AAV part...