US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on March 17 for "DNA sequence modification-based gene drive" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,583, issued on March 17, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"DNA sequence modification-based gene drive" was invented by Bruce A. Hay (Encino, Calif.), Georg Oberhofer (Pasadena, Calif.) and Tobin William Ivy (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are embodiments relating to manipulation of populations and sex ratio in populations through DNA sequence modifications."

The patent was filed on March 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/611,182.

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