US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 22 for "Methods and compositions for detecting a target RNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,196, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for detecting a target RNA" was invented by Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, Calif.), Mitchell Ray O'Connell (Oakland, Calif.), Alexandra East-Seletsky (San Francisco), Spencer Charles Knight (Berkeley, Calif.) and James Harrison Doudna Cate (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclos...