US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 26 for "RNA-guided nucleic acid modifying enzymes and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,691, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"RNA-guided nucleic acid modifying enzymes and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, Calif.), Jillian F. Banfield (Berkeley, Calif.), David Burstein (Berkeley, Calif.), Lucas Benjamin Harrington (Berkeley, Calif.) and Steven C. Strutt (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides CasX proteins, nucleic acids encoding the CasX proteins, and modified host cells comprising the CasX proteins and/or nucleic acids encoding same. CasX proteins are useful in a variety of appli...