US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Children's Medical Center on Dec. 16 for "Functional genomics using CRISPR-CAS systems for saturating mutagenesis of non-coding elements, compositions, methods, libraries and applications thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,610, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Functional genomics using CRISPR-CAS systems for saturating mutagenesis of non-coding elements, compositions, methods, libraries and applications thereof" was invented by Daniel E. Bauer (Boston), Stuart H. Orkin (Boston), Neville Espi Sanjana (Cambridge, Mass.), Ophir Shalem (Cambridge, Mass.), Jason Wright (Cambridge, Mass.) and Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a deep scanning mutagenesis libr...