ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,809, issued on May 19.

"DNA-cutting agent based on CAS9 protein from the bacterium pasteurella pneumotropica" was invented by Konstantin Viktorovich Severinov (Moscow), Sergey Anatolievich Shmakov (Voskresensk, Russia), Daria Nikolaevna Artamonova (Moscow), Ignaty Igorevich Goryanin (Moscow), Olga Sergeevna Musharova (Moscow), Julia Valerevna Andreeva (Moscow), Tatiana Igorevna Zyubko (Sankt-Peterburg, Russia), Yana Vitalievna Fedorova (Gatchina, Russia), Mikhail Alekseevich Khodorkovskii (Gatchina, Russia), George Evgenevich Pobegalov (Sankt-Peterburg, Russia), Anatoliy Nikolaevich Arseniev (Sankt-Peterburg, Russia), Polina Anatolevna Selkova (Votkinsk, Russia), Aleksandra Andreev...