US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS on Nov. 11 for "Detection of gene loci with polychromatic CRISPR-associated protein 9" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,078, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) and UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Westborough, Mass.).

"Detection of gene loci with polychromatic CRISPR-associated protein 9" was invented by Thoru Pederson (Worcester, Mass.), Hanhui Ma (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Li-Chun Tu (Worcester, Mass.), Ardalan Naseri (Orlando, Fla.), Maximilaan Huisman (Worcester, Mass.) and Shaojie Zhang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A C9orf72 DNA repeat expansion can be detected using a CRISPR Arrayed Repeat Detection System (CARDS). Based upon the compositions and methods supporting thi...