US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 24 for "Methods and use of chimeric proteins" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,125, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods and use of chimeric proteins" was invented by Eugene Yeo (La Jolla, Calif.), Kristopher W. Brannan (Missouri City, Texas), Ryan Marina (Boston), Isaac A. Chaim (San Diego) and Daniel A. Lorenz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for using chimeric proteins to produce RNA modifications that can be detected by sequencing methods, including methods detecting relative translation rates of various mRNAs. Also provided herein are compositions comprising chimeric proteins, wherein the chimeric proteins...