ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,245, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Synthetic gene clusters" was invented by Ethan Mirsky (San Francisco), Karsten Temme (San Francisco), Christopher A. Voigt (Belmont, Mass.) and Dehua Zhao (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for making synthetic gene clusters are described."

The patent was filed on Oct. 31, 2019, under Application No. 16/671,036.

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