ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,049, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASKBIO INC. (Research Triangle Park, New Caledonia).

"Systems and methods for synthetic regulatory sequence design or production" was invented by Kira Mourao (Midlothian, Great Britain), Michael L. Roberts (Midlothian, Great Britain) and Ross Fraser (Midlothian, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed to systems and methods for synthetic regulatory sequence design or production. In several aspects described herein are methods of designing and optionally synthesizing shortened or otherwise modified polynucleotide sequences from polynucleotide sequ...