US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, University of Washington on March 24 for "Caged-degron-based molecular feedback circuits and methods of using the same" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,896, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and University of Washington (Seattle).

"Caged-degron-based molecular feedback circuits and methods of using the same" was invented by David Baker (Seattle), Scott Boyken (Seattle), Hana El-Samad (San Francisco), Marc Lajoie (Seattle), Robert Langan (Seattle) and Andrew Ng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are molecular feedback circuits employing caged-degrons. Aspects of such circuits include the use of a caged-degron to modulate the output of a signaling pathway in a feedback-controlled manner. Also provided...