US Patent Issued to Editas Medicine on July 15 for "Systems and methods for modulating chromosomal rearrangements" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,223, issued on July 15, was assigned to Editas Medicine Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for modulating chromosomal rearrangements" was invented by Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino (Cambridge, Mass.) and Anne Helen Bothmer (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for modulating the occurrence of chromosomal rearrangements, e.g., translocations, in a cell during genome editing. Embodiments are provided for reducing the occurrence of unwanted chromosomal rearrangements, and for increasing the occurrence of desired chromosomal rearrangements."

The patent was filed on Jan. 3...