US Patent Issued to ARBOR BIOTECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "CRISPR-associated systems and components" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,060, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ARBOR BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"CRISPR-associated systems and components" was invented by David R. Cheng (Boston), David A. Scott (San Francisco) and Winston X. Yan (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes novel systems, methods, and compositions for the manipulation of nucleic acids in a targeted fashion. The disclosure describes non-naturally occurring, engineered Type III-E CRISPR-Cas systems, components, and methods for targeted modification of DNA, RNA, and protein substrates. Each system includes one or more protein components and one or more nucleic...