ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,025, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ACRIGEN BIOSCIENCES (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for nucleic acid modifications" was invented by David Rabuka (Berkeley, Calif.), Allison Sharrar (Berkeley, Calif.), Michael Schelle (Berkeley, Calif.) and Luisa Mayumi Arake de Tacca (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides nucleases and compositions, methods, and systems thereof for nucleic acid modification. More particularly, the present disclosure provides compositions and system comprising a nuclease comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity to any of SEQ ID NOs: ...