ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,902, issued on July 22, was assigned to Mirimus Inc. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Compositions and methods of generating novel amiRNA" was invented by Giuseppe Militello (New York), Christof Fellmann (Berkeley, Calif.) and Johannes Zuber (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are Compositions and Methods of Generating Novel amiRNA's. Provided herein are methods for producing or generating one or more amiRNAs; also provided are constructs and compositions useful in the methods. The methods and constructs provided in this disclosure are highly efficient methods for production of a new generation of amiRNAs."

The patent was filed...