US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on April 15 for "Engineered guide RNA and uses thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,951, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Engineered guide RNA and uses thereof" was invented by Yizhou Dong (Dublin, Ohio) and Bin Li (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems, methods and compositions for use in Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cpf1 genome editing systems."

The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2019, under Application No. 16/269,021.

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