US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 15 for "Genetically engineered cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,966, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Genetically engineered cells" was invented by Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, Calif.), Basem Al-Shayeb (Berkeley, Calif.), Jillian F. Banfield (Berkeley, Calif.) and Patrick Pausch (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas effector proteins, nucleic acids encoding same, and compositions comprising same. The present disclosure provides ribonucleoprotein complexes comprising: an RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas effector protein of the present disclosure; and a guide RNA. The present dis...