ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,326, issued on June 17, was assigned to Telesis Bio Inc (San Diego).

"Genetically engineered Vibrio sp. and uses thereof" was invented by Matthew T Weinstock (San Diego), Christopher M. Wilson (San Diego) and Eric D. Hesek (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the seminal discovery of a generation and use of genetically engineered Vibrio sp. Provided is the use of the genetically engineered bacteria for the construction, maintenance, manipulation, and/or propagation of DNA constructs; protein expression; protein secretion; vectors and other metabolic tools; metabolic engineering; expressio...