US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 15 for "Non-viral transgenesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,719, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Non-viral transgenesis" was invented by Chih-Wen Ni (Merced, Calif.) and Chang-Ying Chiang (Merced, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are new compositions and methods for use in introducing transgenes into cells. The compositions are non-viral but achieve levels of transgene integration comparable to those obtained with viral-mediated methods, and can be used for targeted integration of a transgene at a specific genomic locus."

The patent was filed on July 31, 2020, under Application No. 17/597,997.

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