US Patent Issued to The University of Osaka, Kyoto University on Jan. 13 for "Method for inducing deletion in genomic DNA" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,818, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The University of Osaka (Osaka, Japan) and Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for inducing deletion in genomic DNA" was invented by Akitsu Hotta (Kyoto, Japan), Yuya Okuzaki (Kyoto, Japan), Huaigeng Xu (Kyoto, Japan), Peter David Gee (Kyoto, Japan), Yuto Kita (Kyoto, Japan), Tomoji Mashimo (Suita, Japan) and Kazuto Yoshimi (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production method of genomic DNA in which a deletion of more than 100 bases of nucleotides is introduced into a target region of the genomic DNA, the method includes a contact step of bringing a type I CRISPR associated com...