ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,710, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Metagenomi Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Base editing enzymes" was invented by Brian C. Thomas (Berkeley, Calif.), Jyun-Liang Lin (Emeryville, Calif.), Alan Brooks (Clayton, Calif.), Cristina Butterfield (Oakland, Calif.), Christopher Brown (Albany, Calif.), Cindy Castelle (San Francisco), Morayma Temoche-Diaz (Oakland, Calif.), Benjamin Freeman (Emeryville, Calif.), Christine Romano (Emeryville, Calif.) and Rebecca Lamothe (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for endonuclease enzymes having distinguishing domain features, as well as methods of using such...