US Patent Issued to China Agricultural University on May 19 for "CRISPR-Cas sigma enzyme and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,847, issued on May 19, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"CRISPR-Cas sigma enzyme and system" was invented by Jinsheng Lai (Beijing), Zhijia Yang (Beijing), Meixia Yu (Beijing), Jian Chen (Beijing), Beibei Xin (Beijing), Yunpeng Teng (Beijing), Yueheng Zhou (Beijing), Haiming Zhao (Beijing) and Weibin Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of nucleic acid editing, in particular to the field of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) technology. Specifically, the present invention relates to Cas effector proteins, fusion proteins comprisin...