US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 13 for "Crispr effector system based coronavirus diagnostics" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,863, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Crispr effector system based coronavirus diagnostics" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Gootenberg (Cambridge, Mass.), Omar Abudayyeh (Cambridge, Mass.), Julia Joung (Cambridge, Mass.), Alim Ladha (Cambridge, Mass.), Han Altae-Tran (Cambridge, Mass.) and Guilhem Faure (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for rapid diagnostics related to the use of CRISPR effector systems and optimized guide sequences for detection of coronavirus, includ...