US Patent Issued to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on July 29 for "Method for generating genome-edited chickens" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,569, issued on July 29, was assigned to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Method for generating genome-edited chickens" was invented by Ning Yang (Beijing), Xiqiong Wang (Beijing) and Congjiao Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a genome-edited chicken is provided, relating to the technical field of genetic engineering. Ovarian injection in situ is conducted on a hen, where a gene editing reagent is injected into ovarian medulla of the hen that is close to laying eggs, such that the exogenously-injected gene editing reagent can enter developing ovarian follicles through blood circulation. In re...