US Patent Issued to Arbor Biotechnologies on July 1 for "Compositions comprising a CRISPR nuclease and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,870, issued on July 1, was assigned to Arbor Biotechnologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions comprising a CRISPR nuclease and uses thereof" was invented by Shaorong Chong (Arlington, Mass.), Quinton Norman Wessells (Cambridge, Mass.), Roy Ziblat (Newton, Mass.), Noah Michael Jakimo (Cambridge, Mass.), Anthony James Garrity (Hingham, Mass.) and Lauren E. Alfonse (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to variant polypeptides, methods of preparing the variant polypeptides, processes for characterizing the variant polypeptides, compositions and cells comprising the variant polypeptides, and methods of...