US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Nov. 3 for "Materials and methods for increasing gene editing frequency" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,207, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Materials and methods for increasing gene editing frequency" was invented by Wendy R. Gordon (Minneapolis), Eric Aird (Minneapolis) and Klaus Lovendahl (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials and methods for gene editing using improved targeted endonucleases and endonuclease systems (e.g., Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) endonuclease systems) are provided herein."

The patent was filed on Aug. 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/815,218.

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