US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Intima Bioscience on Jan. 27 for "Mesophilic argonaute systems and uses thereof" (British, Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,499, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and Intima Bioscience Inc. (New York).

"Mesophilic argonaute systems and uses thereof" was invented by Lei S. Qi (Stanford, Calif.), Modassir Choudhry (New York), Xueqiu Lin (San Bruno, Calif.), Trevor N. Collingwood (Novato, Calif.), Thomas Henley (Soham, Great Britain), Benjamin Klapholz (Cambridge, Great Britain), Tilmann Buerckstuemmer (Vienna) and Sejla Salic (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Constructs comprising Argonautes and neighboring genes are disclosed for use in gene editing. Disclosed are also ...