US Patent Issued to YONSEI UNIVERSITY BIOHEALTH TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS. on Dec. 16 for "Protospacer adjacent motif sequence and method for modifying target nucleic acid in genome of cell by using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,609, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YONSEI UNIVERSITY BIOHEALTH TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS. INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Protospacer adjacent motif sequence and method for modifying target nucleic acid in genome of cell by using same" was invented by Hyong Bum Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hui Kwon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Na Hye Kim (Tongyeong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a method of modifying a target nucleic acid in the genome of a cell by using a novel PAM sequence; and a cell in which a target nucleic acid of the genome of the cell is modified by the method. Accordingly, genome editing may be performed b...