ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,321, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"CRISPR/Cas12J enzyme and system" was invented by Jinsheng Lai (Beijing), Yingsi Zhou (Beijing), Yingnan Li (Beijing), Jihong Zhang (Beijing), Yingying Wang (Beijing), Menglu Lyu (Beijing), Xiangbo Zhang (Beijing), Haiming Zhao (Beijing) and Weibin Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a Cas effector protein, a fusion protein containing said protein, and a nucleic acid molecule coding same. Also provided are a complex and a composition for nucleic acid editing, for example, a complex and a composition for gene or genome editing, contain...