US Patent Issued to The Jackson Laboratory on Sept. 30 for "Three-component CRISPR/Cas complex system and uses thereof" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,638, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine).

"Three-component CRISPR/Cas complex system and uses thereof" was invented by Haoyi Wang (Beijing), Albert Cheng (Bar Harbor, Maine) and Nathaniel Jillette (Bar Harbor, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention described herein provides compositions and reagents for assembling a tripartite complex at a specific location of a target DNA. The invention also provides methods for using the complex to, for example, label a specific genomic locus, to regulate the expression of a target gene, or to create a gene regulatory network."

The patent was...