ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,580, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to InVivo Biosystems Inc. (Eugene, Ore.).
"Transgenic animal phenotyping platform and uses thereof" was invented by Christopher E. Hopkins (Murray, Utah), Trisha J. Brock (Eugene, Ore.), Kathryn McCormick (Eugene, Ore.) and Gongping He (Murray, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides transgenic nematode systems for assessing function of heterologous genes, their variants and drug discovery. The transgenic nematodes contain a heterologous gene that is inserted via homologous recombination at the native locus replacing and removing the nematode ortholog, wherein expressio...