US Patent Issued to JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAT FRANKFURT AM MAIN on April 29 for "Method for generating a gene editing vector with fixed guide RNA pairs" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,624, issued on April 29, was assigned to JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAT FRANKFURT AM MAIN (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Method for generating a gene editing vector with fixed guide RNA pairs" was invented by Manuel Kaulich (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ivan Dikic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Martin Wegner (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Yves Matthess (Fulda, Germany) and Koraljka Husnjak (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a novel method for the generation of a vector construct suitable for gene editing applications which comprises a fixed pair of predetermined expressible guide RNA (gRNA...