US Patent Issued to China Agricultural University on July 28 for "CRISPR/Cas12F enzyme and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,517, issued on July 28, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"CRISPR/Cas12F enzyme and system" was invented by Jinsheng Lai (Beijing), Yingsi Zhou (Beijing), Jinjie Zhu (Beijing), Fei Yi (Beijing), Xiangbo Zhang (Beijing), Haiming Zhao (Beijing) and Weibin Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application belongs to the field of nucleic acid editing, in particular to the field of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology. In particular, the application provides a Cas effector protein, a fusion protein with the Cas effector protein, and a nucleic acid molecule encoding...