US Patent Issued to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 4 for "RNA-guided nucleases and DNA binding proteins" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,189, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"RNA-guided nucleases and DNA binding proteins" was invented by Neena Kenton Pyzocha (New Boston, Mass.), Adam Patrick Joyce (Stow, Mass.) and Karl Kremling (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods related to Cas proteins, nucleic acids encoding the Cas proteins, and modified host cells comprising the Cas proteins and/or encoding nucleic acids are disclosed. Cas proteins are useful in a variety of applications. Cas proteins bind guide RNAs that in turn provide functional specificity to the Cas proteins, nucleic...