Patents in 2023

Inventors: Wensheng Wei, Shiyou Zhu, Zhongzheng Cao, Zhiheng Liu, Yuan He, Pengfei Yuan; Name of invention: Compositions and methods for highly efficient genetic screening using barcoded guide RNA constructs. Date of grant: Jan 24, 2023; Patent number: ZL 2019 1 1329650.X

Inventors: Wensheng Wei, Liang Qu, Zongyi Yi, Shiyou Zhu, Chunhui Wang, Zhongzheng Cao, Zhuo Zhou, Pengfei Yuan; Name of invention: Methods and Compositions for Editing RNAs. Date of grant: Jun 16, 2023; Patent number: ZL202210717093.4

Inventors: Wensheng Wei, Yinan Wang, Yuexin Zhou, Xinyi Zhang, Di Yue, Ying Liu; Name of invention: Method for identifying functional elements. Date of grant: Jun 16, 2023; Patent number: HK 40037877 (HongKong)

Inventors: Wensheng Wei, Liang Qu, Zongyi Yi, Shiyou Zhu, Chunhui Wang, Zhongzheng Cao, Zhuo Zhou, Pengfei Yuan; Name of invention: Methods and Compositions for Editing RNAs. Date of grant: Aug 4, 2023; Patent number: HK40081918 (Hong Kong)

Inventors: Wensheng Wei, Zongyi Yi, Liang Qu, Feng Tian, Chunhui Wang, Shiyou Zhu, Zhuo Zhou; Name of invention: Targeted RNA editing with engineered RNA using endogenous ADAR. Date of grant: Aug 18, 2023; Patent number: ZL 2020 8 0050243.X

Inventors: Wensheng Wei, Ying Liu, ZhongZheng Cao, Yinan Wang, Yu Guo, Pengfei Yuan; Name of invention: Method for Screening and Identifying Functional lncRNAs. Date of grant: Sep 15, 2023; Patent number: HK40045732 (HongKong)

Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shuqiang Li, Fengyuan Li, Han Yang. Name of invention: A gene editing method for spiders. Date of grant: Sep 29, 2023; Patent number: ZL 2020 1 0662596.7

Inventors: Fu Gao, Jian Lu, Qihui Wang, Pei Du, Xinkai Wu, Xi Chen, Panlian Dai. Name of invention: Optimized SARS-CoV-2 chimeric nucleic acid vaccine and its applications. Date of grant: Sep 19, 2023; Patent number: ZL 2022 1 0514372.0

Inventors: Jian Lu, Zhaohui Qian, Xinkai Wu, Fuwen Zan, Kejia Shan. Name of invention: SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine with codon optimization. Date of grant: Aug 11, 2023; Patent number: ZL 2022 1 1265196.8