US Patent Issued to AUBURN UNIVERSITY on Aug. 12 for "CRISPR-Cas system for clostridium genome engineering and recombinant strains produced thereof" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,023, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Ala.).

"CRISPR-Cas system for clostridium genome engineering and recombinant strains produced thereof" was invented by Yi Wang (Auburn, Ala.) and Jie Zhang (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for modifying the genome of Clostridium strains is provided based on a modified endogenous CRISPR array. The application also describes Clostridium strains modified for enhanced butanol production wherein the modified strains are produced using the novel CRISPR-Cas system."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2021, under Application No. 17/469,386.

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