US Patent Issued to TOG TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 1 for "Efficient non-meiotic allele introgression in livestock" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,326, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOG TECHNOLOGIES LLC (New Brighton, Minn.).

"Efficient non-meiotic allele introgression in livestock" was invented by Scott C. Fahrenkrug (Minneapolis) and Daniel F. Carlson (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, uses, and animals for introgression of alleles between animals, including SNPs. One embodiment involves introducing a targeted targeting endonuclease system and a HDR template into a cell with a mismatch in the binding of the targeting endonuclease and the targeted site."

The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/933,367.

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