US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 27 for "Type VII CRISPR proteins and systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,714, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Type VII CRISPR proteins and systems" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Han Altae-Tran (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides systems, methods and compositions used for targeted gene modification, targeted insertion, perturbation of gene transcripts, and nucleic acid editing. Novel nucleic acid targeting systems comprise components of Type VII Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) systems and transposab...