US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on May 12 for "Specific nuclear-anchored independent labeling system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,073, issued on May 12, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Specific nuclear-anchored independent labeling system" was invented by Andreas R. Pfenning (Pittsburgh), Easwaran Ramamurthy (Pittsburgh) and Alyssa Lawler (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials and methods for labeling and isolating particular cell types from mixed cell populations are provided herein. Also provided herein are methods for generating data representing a synthetic genetic sequence configured for labeling at least one cell type by causing expression of a marker in the at least one cell type."

The patent was filed on June 18, ...