ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,942, issued on April 15, was assigned to Universite de Lille (Lille, France) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (Paris).

"Method for producing DNA vectors from molecular bricks containing sequences of interest" was invented by Geoffroy De Bettignies (Houplin-ancoisne, France), Carine De Bettignies (Houplin-ancoisne, France) and Sylvain Julien (Croix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for producing, in one step, "made to measure" double-stranded DNA vectors from molecular bricks including sequences of interest in the presence of a one and only type IIs restriction enzyme."

The patent was ...