US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on Oct. 27 for "CAS9 fusion proteins and related methods" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,476, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"CAS9 fusion proteins and related methods" was invented by Kylie Standage-Beier (Phoenix), Parithi Balachandran (Coimbatore, India), Nicholas Brookhouser (Tempe, Ariz.), David Brafman (Phoenix) and Xiao Wang (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are recombinant Cas9 proteins, methods of production, and methods of use for targeted DNA deletions, DNA insertions, or both in a eukaryotic genome. An assay system for evaluating the ability of the recombinant Cas9 proteins for targeted DNA deletions...