ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,820, issued on May 19, was assigned to Intellia Therapeutics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for immunotherapy" was invented by Amy Melissa Becker (Lexington, Mass.), Surbhi Goel (Winchester, Mass.), Sarah Beth Hesse (Arlington, Mass.), Troy Aaron Luster (Norfolk, Mass.), Birgit Schultes (Arlington, Mass.), Stephanie A. Yazinski (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Pooja Vinay (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for editing, e.g., altering a DNA sequence, within the TRBC1, TRBC2 and/or TRAC genes are provided. Compositions and methods for immunotherapy are provided, for example."

The patent was fil...