Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Genetic Editing Of Target Genes To Enhance Natural Killer Cell Function' Filed by Nkarta, Inc.

MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517014766 A) filed by Nkarta, Inc., San Francisco, on Feb. 20, for 'genetic editing of target genes to enhance natural killer cell function.'

Inventor(s) include Trager, James, Barnaby; Chan, Ivan; and Guo, Chao.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Several embodiments of the methods and compositions disclosed herein relate to immune cells that are genetically edited, for example, using Crispr/Cas, to modulate, reduce or otherwise eliminate expression of one or more endogenous genes. In several embodiments, the edited cells are e...