US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Trustees of Tufts College on July 8 for "Delivery of large payloads" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,368, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Delivery of large payloads" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Sourav Choudhury (Cambridge, Mass.) and Qiaobing Xu (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes non-naturally occurring or engineered CRISPR systems and proteins, associated with a delivery system comprising a virus component and a lipid component. The disclosure includes CRISPR proteins associated with capsid proteins, e.g., AAV VP1VP2, and/or VP3...