US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 9 for "CRISPR enzymes and systems with modified pam specificity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,416, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"CRISPR enzymes and systems with modified pam specificity" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Bernd Zetsche (Gloucester, Mass.), Linyi Gao (Cambridge, Mass.), Ian Slaymaker (Cambridge, Mass.) and David Benjamin Turitz Cox (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered DNA-targeting systems comprising a novel DNA...