US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE on April 1 for "CRISPR enzymes and systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,359, issued on April 1, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"CRISPR enzymes and systems" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Bernd Zetsche (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan S. Gootenberg (Cambridge, Mass.), Omar O. Abudayyeh (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ian Slaymaker (Cambridge, Mass.).

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