ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,977, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Heterologous proteins with axonemal proteins" was invented by Wallace F. Marshall (Oakland, Calif.) and Hongmin Qin (College Station, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for the production of heterologous proteins in a cell including axonemes. The cells include a nucleic acid encoding a fusion protein expressed in the axoneme. The fusion protein includes an axonemal protein linked to a heterologous protein, and the fusion prote...