US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 18 for "Small type II-D Cas proteins and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,705, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Small type II-D Cas proteins and methods of use thereof" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Soumya Kannan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Han Altae-Tran (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and compositions capable of targeting nucleic acids. Describe in certain exemplary embodiments herein are a class of small Cas proteins (Type II-D Cas proteins) and systems thereof. Also described in certain exemplary embodiments herein are methods...