US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College on Dec. 16 for "Systematic screening and mapping of regulatory elements in non-coding genomic regions, methods, compositions, and applications thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,971, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systematic screening and mapping of regulatory elements in non-coding genomic regions, methods, compositions, and applications thereof" was invented by Jesse Engreitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Eric S. Lander (Cambridge, Mass.) and Charles Fulco (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to methods for identifying putative regulatory elements that regulates a gene, comprising: obtaining a measure of intrins...