US Patent Issued to Oxitec on Dec. 9 for "Self-limiting noctuids" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,404, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Oxitec Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Self-limiting noctuids" was invented by Stephen Joyce (Abingdon, Great Britain), Nathan Rose (Abingdon, Great Britain), Kelly Matzen (Abingdon, Great Britain), Catherine Reavey (Abingdon, Great Britain), Lucy Broom (Abingdon, Great Britain), Adam Walker (Abingdon, Great Britain), Simon Warner (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Neil Morrison (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a Noctuid dsx splice cassette for expression of a gene of interest on a sex-specific basis, gene expression systems for imparting a self-limiting trait to t...