US Patent Issued to MAX-DELBRUCK-CENTRUM FUR MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN on Jan. 20 for "Method of insterting a tranposon into nucleic acids" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,039, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MAX-DELBRUCK-CENTRUM FUR MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN (Berlin).

"Method of insterting a tranposon into nucleic acids" was invented by Zsuzsanna Izsvak (Berlin), Zoltan Ivics (Berlin), Lajos Mates (Berlin), Namitha Manoj (Boulder, Colo.), Carmen-Anisia Judis (Berlin) and Andrea Katzer (Wandlitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to hyperactive variants of a transposase of the transposon system Sleeping Beauty (SB). The invention further refers to corresponding nucleic acids producing these variants, to a gene transfer system for stably introducing nucleic acid(s) into the...