ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,216, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.) and The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Methods for identifying class 2 crispr-cas systems" was invented by Sergey Shmakov (Moscow), Kira S. Makarova (Bethesda, Md.), Yuri I. Wolf (Bethesda, Md.), Aaron Smargon (Cambridge, Mass.), Neena Pyzocha (Cambridge, Mass.), David Cox (Cambridge, Mass.), Winston Yan (Brookline, Mass.), David Scott (Cambridge, Mass.), Konstantin Severinov (Piscataway, N.J....