US Patent Issued to Cibus US on March 31 for "Transcription activator-like effectors fused to inteins" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,300, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cibus US LLC (San Diego).

"Transcription activator-like effectors fused to inteins" was invented by Robert W. Williams (Minneapolis) and Sara Wixon (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a plurality of nucleotide sequences encoding a first intein fused to at least a portion of a first transcription activator-like effector (TALE), a second nucleotide sequence encoding the first intein fused to at least a portion of a second TALE, and a third nucleotide sequence encoding a second intein fused to at least a portion of a rare-cutting nucl...