US Patent Issued to Twist Bioscience on May 20 for "Variant nucleic acid libraries for coronavirus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,965, issued on May 20, was assigned to Twist Bioscience Corp. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Variant nucleic acid libraries for coronavirus" was invented by Aaron Sato (Burlingame, Calif.), Qiang Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tom Yuan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions relating to libraries of optimized antibodies having nucleic acids encoding for an antibody comprising modified sequences. Libraries described herein comprise nucleic acids encoding SARS-CoV-2 or ACE2 antibodies. Further described herein are protein libraries generated when the nucleic acid libraries are translated...