US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on March 17 for "Systems and methods for plant genome editing using Cas 12a orthologs" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,576, issued on March 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Systems and methods for plant genome editing using Cas 12a orthologs" was invented by Yiping Qi (Potomac, Md.) and Yingxiao Zhang (Greenbelt, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-naturally occurring heterologous CRISPR-Cas12a genomic editing system is described, including or encoding at least one Cas12a ortholog endonuclease selected from among Lb5Cas12a, CMaCas12a, BsCas12a, BoCas12a, MlCas12a, Mb2Cas12a, MbCas12a TsCas12a, and MAD7(R) ErCas12a endonucleases. The ortholog endonucleases enable genomic editing of plants at low temp...