US Patent Issued to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Methods and compositions for sequences guiding Cas9 targeting" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,490, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for sequences guiding Cas9 targeting" was invented by Rodolphe Barrangou (Raleigh, N.C.), Kurt M. Selle (Raleigh, N.C.) and Alexandra Briner Crawley (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for genome editing and DNA targeting of proteins."

The patent was filed on Aug. 25, 2020, under Application No. 17/002,133.

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