ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,129, issued on March 31, was assigned to ASKBIO INC..

"Liver-specific regulatory nucleic acid sequences" was invented by Michael Roberts (Midlothian, Great Britain), Juan Manuel Iglesias (Midlothian, Great Britain), Jorge Omar Yanez-Cuna (Midlothian, Great Britain), Nicolle Kippen (Midlothian, Great Britain), Ross Fraser (Midlothian, Great Britain) and Katie Baker (Midlothian, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to regulatory nucleic acid sequences, in particular liver-specific cis-regulatory elements, cis-regulatory modules, promoters and other such nucleic acid sequences, that are capable of ...