US Patent Issued to Technische Universitat Munchen on Aug. 4 for "DNA origami encoding for gene expression and contransfection" (Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,510, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Technische Universitat Munchen (Munich).

"DNA origami encoding for gene expression and contransfection" was invented by Jessica Kretzmann (Manning, Australia) and Hendrik Dietz (Haar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a nucleic acid nanostructure comprising at least one scaffold strand a plurality of staple strands, wherein said nanostructure, preferably said at least one scaffold strand, comprises at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding a gene. The present invention further relates to a composition comprising a nucleic acid nanostructure, and to a collec...