ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,062, issued on March 4, was assigned to 64-X Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mammalian cells and methods for engineering the same" was invented by Alexis Rovner (San Francisco), Gaurab Chakrabarti (Houston), David Thompson (Brookline, Mass.) and Gregory Sieczkiewicz (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides mammalian cell lines for expression of viral vectors, and methods of making and using the same. Provided methods employ use of identifiers that are capable of being packaged into a viral vector to select and/or identify mammalian cell lines with engineered sequences associated with beneficial characte...