US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 12 for "Endonuclease sexing and sterilization in insects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,419, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Endonuclease sexing and sterilization in insects" was invented by Nikolay P. Kandul (La Jolla, Calif.) and Omar S. Akbari (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of the disclosed precision guided sterile insect technique (pgSIT) include methods for directing male sexing in a genetically modified insect and methods of producing a progeny of genetically modified sterile male insect egg. These methods include integrating at least one nucleic acid sequence into a genome of a first insect, the at least one nucleic acid se...