US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 14 for "Functional genomics using CRISPR-Cas systems, compositions, methods, screens and applications thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,995, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Functional genomics using CRISPR-Cas systems, compositions, methods, screens and applications thereof" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Ophir Shalem (Cambridge, Mass.), Neville Espi Sanjana (Cambridge, Mass.), John Doench (Cambridge, Mass.), David Root (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ella Nicole Biewener Hartenian (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to libraries, compositions, methods, applications, kits and screens used in function...