ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,726, issued on March 24, was assigned to EARLI Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Synthetic cancer-specific promoters" was invented by Dariusz Wodziak (Redwood City, Calif.), Shireen Rudina (Redwood City, Calif.), Maggie C. Louie (Redwood City, Calif.), Yue Zhang (Redwood City, Calif.), Elizabeth Stroebele (Redwood City, Calif.), Albert Park (Redwood City, Calif.), David Suhy (Redwood City, Calif.), Paul Escarpe (San Ramon, Calif.), Cyriac Roeding (Portola Valley, Calif.), Justin Lin (Simi Valley, Calif.), Alex Harwig (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Leland Harrison Hartwell (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are s...