US Patent Issued to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 27 for "Compositions, systems, and methods for genome editing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,743, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions, systems, and methods for genome editing" was invented by Adam Patrick Joyce (Stow, Mass.) and Michael Andreas Kock (Rheinfelden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides compositions, recombinant expression constructs, and engineered systems that include a polynucleotide including or encoding a Cas12a tracrRNA, and methods for their use. The materials and methods of the disclosure are especially suited to sequence-specific genome editing of eukaryotic genomic sequences."

The patent was filed on June 30,...