US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY on May 13 for "Split inteins with exceptional splicing activity" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,472, issued on May 13, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"Split inteins with exceptional splicing activity" was invented by Tom W. Muir (Princeton, N.J.), Adam J. Stevens (Princeton, N.J.) and Neel H. Shah (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to inteins, split inteins, compositions comprising inteins and methods for use of these."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2021, under Application No. 17/363,698.

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