ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,063, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for modification of target molecules" was invented by Matthew B. Francis (Berkeley, Calif.), Marco Jackson Lobba (Berkeley, Calif.), Johnathan Charles Maza (Berkeley, Calif.), Alan M. Marmelstein (Berkeley, Calif.), Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, Calif.), Christof Fellmann (San Francisco) and Casey S. Mogilevsky (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for chemoselective modification of a target molecule. A subject method includes contacting a target molecule co...