ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,591, issued on May 27, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Methods and systems for generating complex spatial patterns" was invented by Fuqing Wu (Tempe, Ariz.), Samat Bayakhmetov (Tempe, Ariz.), Changhan He (Tempe, Ariz.), Qi Zhang (Tempe, Ariz.), Xingwen Chen (Tempe, Ariz.), Yang Kuang (Tempe, Ariz.) and Xiao Wang (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic gene circuits and methods for modeling complex spatial patterns (for example, in somitogenesis) and related plasmids are disclosed herein. Also disclosed herein are methods of generating an expression pattern using th...