US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK on April 21 for "Methods for enhancing genome engineering efficiency" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,839, issued on April 21, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Methods for enhancing genome engineering efficiency" was invented by Jose F. Gutierrez-Marcos (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to methods and materials for genome engineering in eukaryotic cells, and particularly to methods for increasing genome engineering (i.e. transformation or genome editing) efficiency via delivery of one or more RKD2 and RKD4 genes, with genome engineering components."

The patent was filed on Jan. 28, 2020, under Application No. 17/426,191.

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