ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,715, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Wageningen Universiteit (Wageningen, Netherlands).
"Nucleic acids for nuclease-mediated genome editing" was invented by John Van Der Oost (Renkum, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention related to the field of genetic engineering tools, methods and techniques for gene or genome editing. Specifically, the invention concerns isolated polypeptides having nuclease activity, host cells and expression vectors comprising nucleic acids encoding said polypeptides as well as methods of cleaving and editing target nucleic acids in a sequence-specific matter. The poly peptides, nucleic ac...