US Patent Issued to Pairwise Plants Services on June 17 for "Compositions and methods for RNA-templated editing in plants" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,330, issued on June 17, was assigned to Pairwise Plants Services Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for RNA-templated editing in plants" was invented by Aaron Hummel (Hillsborough, N.C.), Joseph Matthew Watts (Cary, N.C.), Shai Joshua Lawit (Durham, N.C.) and Nathaniel Graham (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to recombinant nucleic constructs comprising a DNA binding domain, an endonuclease and a reverse transcriptase and methods of use thereof for modifying nucleic acids in plants."

The patent was filed on Oct. 23, 2020, under Application No. 17/078,919.

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