ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,698, issued on July 29, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Targeted nuclear RNA cleavage and polyadenylation with CRISPR-Cas" was invented by Douglas Matthew Anderson (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides proteins, nucleic acids, systems and methods for visualizing or modulating RNA."

The patent was filed on Jan. 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/422,885.

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