US Patent Issued to AUBURN UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Engineered catfish and uses thereof" (Alabama, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,679, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Ala.).

"Engineered catfish and uses thereof" was invented by Rex A. Dunham (Auburn, Ala.), Michael Coogan (Auburn, Ala.), Roger Cone (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Veronica Alston (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Descried in certain example embodiments herein are engineered fish, particularly engineered catfish, that are engineered to contain modified myostatin, melanocortin-4 receptor, and/or one or more n-3 fatty acid biosynthesis pathway genes and/or gene products."

The patent was filed on April 18, 2022, under Application No. 17/723,159.

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