US Patent Issued to CIBUS US, CIBUS EUROPE on June 17 for "Methods and compositions for increasing efficiency of targeted gene modification using oligonucleotide-mediated gene repair" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,303, issued on June 17, was assigned to CIBUS US LLC (San Diego) and CIBUS EUROPE B.V. (Breda, Netherlands).

"Methods and compositions for increasing efficiency of targeted gene modification using oligonucleotide-mediated gene repair" was invented by Peter R. Beetham (Carlsbad, Calif.), Gregory F. W. Gocal (San Diego), Christian Schopke (Carlsbad, Calif.), Noel Joy Sauer (Oceanside, Calif.), James Pearce (La Jolla, Calif.), Rosa E. Segami (Escondido, Calif.) and Jerry Mozoruk (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides to improved methods for the modification of genes in plant cells, and plants and seeds ...