US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLAGE on Feb. 11 for "Systems methods, and compositions for targeted nucleic acid editing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,636, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLAGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems methods, and compositions for targeted nucleic acid editing" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Gootenberg (Cambridge, Mass.) and Omar Abudayyeh (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting and editing nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered RNA-targeting systems comprisin...