US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 17 for "Screening artificial nucleic acids by particle display" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,289, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Screening artificial nucleic acids by particle display" was invented by John Chaput (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides xeno-nucleic acid particle display libraries, methods for identifying functional non-natural nucleic acid (XNA) aptamers using the particle display libraries, and compositions comprising XNA aptamers identified by screening candidate molecules using the xeno-nucleic acid particle display libraries."

The patent was filed on Feb. 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/168,066.

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