US Patent Issued to Inter-University Reseach Institute Corporation Research Organization of Informaton and Systems, KAKE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION on Jan. 13 for "Nonhuman animal and use for same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,836, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Inter-University Reseach Institute Corporation Research Organization of Informaton and Systems (Tokyo) and KAKE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION (Okayama, Japan).

"Nonhuman animal and use for same" was invented by Masato Kanemaki (Mishima, Japan), Ken-Ichiro Hayashi (Okayama, Japan), Naomi Kitamoto (Mishima, Japan), Yumiko Saga (Mishima, Japan) and Rieko Ajima (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A genetically modified non-human animal in which an auxin-inducible degron system controls degradation of a target protein in a living body includes: a chromosome containing a first nucleic acid that ...