US Patent Issued to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 10 for "Compositions, systems, and methods for genome editing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,910, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions, systems, and methods for genome editing" was invented by Adam Patrick Joyce (Stow, Mass.), Michael Andreas Kock (Rheinfelden, Germany) and Hannah Pham (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides compositions that include a polynucleotide including or encoding a Cas12a tracrRNA, and methods for their use in sequence-specific genome editing, especially of eukaryotic genomic sequences. In particular, this disclosure provides Cas12a tracrRNA-containing compositions and methods for their use in Cas12a...