US Patent Issued to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, AVIAGEN on Feb. 4 for "Process for using CRISPR to transfect primordial germ cells in avians" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,466, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia) and AVIAGEN (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Process for using CRISPR to transfect primordial germ cells in avians" was invented by Scott Geoffrey Tyack (Grovedale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to processes for transfecting cells. In particular, the present invention relates to processes for using CRISPR to incorporate a polynucleotide into the genome of an avian primordial germ cell (PGC)."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/809,219.

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