ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,172, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RINUAGENE BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China) and RINUAGENE INTERNATIONAL HK Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Engineered DNA molecule for coding RNA" was invented by Weiguo Zhang (Suzhou, China), Yijie Dong (Suzhou, China), Hua Chen (Suzhou, China) and Wei Qin (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engineered DNA molecule capable of being replicated in a cell, comprising a poly (A) tail coding sequence that makes the engineered DNA molecule more conservative when replicated in cells, particularly in prokaryotic cells, while adjusting the expression level of RNA in eukaryotic cells. Also provid...