US Patent Issued to Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI on Aug. 26 for "Methods and compositions for modulating a genome" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,392, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI LLC (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and compositions for modulating a genome" was invented by Jacob Rosenblum Rubens (Cambridge, Mass.), Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn (Somerville, Mass.), Robert James Citorik (Somerville, Mass.), Barrett Ethan Steinberg (Somerville, Mass.), Donghui Li (Somerville, Mass.) and William Edward Salomon (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for modulating a target genome are disclosed. The composition may comprise a first RNA encoding a polypeptide comprising a retrotransposase reverse transcriptase do...