US Patent Issued to INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES on March 18 for "Identification, characterization, and quantitation of CRISPR-introduced double-stranded DNA break repairs" (Massachusetts, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,959, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Coralville, Iowa).

"Identification, characterization, and quantitation of CRISPR-introduced double-stranded DNA break repairs" was invented by Heng Li (Wellesley, Mass.), Gavin Kurgan (Iowa City, Iowa), Matthew McNeill (Iowa City, Iowa) and Yu Wang (North Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system and process for identifying and characterizing double-stranded DNA break repair sites that are based on biological information and have improved accuracy. Also described is a sequence alignment process that uses biological data to inf...