US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 18 for "Delivery, Engineering and optimization of systems, methods and compositions for sequence manipulation and therapeutic applications" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,707, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Delivery, Engineering and optimization of systems, methods and compositions for sequence manipulation and therapeutic applications" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Randall Jeffrey Platt (Cambridge, Mass.), Guoping Feng (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yang Zhou (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for delivery, engineering and optimization of systems, methods and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Prov...