ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,745, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for linking RNA stem loops" was invented by Neal Devaraj (La Jolla, Calif.) and Dongyang Zhang (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are, inter alia, methods and compositions for linking RNA stem loops. The methods include linking a first RNA stem loop and a second RNA stem loop by way of a preQ1 linking compound."

The patent was filed on Nov. 23, 2021, under Application No. 18/038,190.

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