US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU LUCA INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY on July 8 for "CPF1 protein and its use in gene editing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,840, issued on July 8, was assigned to HANGZHOU LUCA INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"CPF1 protein and its use in gene editing" was invented by Jin Tang (Hangzhou, China), Junchao Shi (Hangzhou, China), Yuanyuan Feng (Hangzhou, China), Peixiang Ma (Hangzhou, China) and Xingxu Huang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a Cpf1 protein and its use in gene editing, which relates to the field of biotechnology. The present invention provides a Cas12a nuclease named as the Cas12a-68 protease, which has a wider PAM recognition range than traditional nucleases and is capable of reco...