US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 20 for "CRISPR enzymes and systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,204, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"CRISPR enzymes and systems" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), David Arthur Scott (Cambridge, Mass.), Winston Xia Yan (Cambridge, Mass.), Sourav Choudhury (Cambridge, Mass.) and Matthias Heidenreich (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, embodiments disclosed herein are directed to engineered CRISPRCas effector proteins that comprise at least one modification compared to an unmodified CRISPR-Cas effector protein that enhances binding of the of the CRISPR...