US Patent Issued to Metagenomi Therapeutics on July 28 for "Enzymes with RuvC domains" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,487, issued on July 28, was assigned to Metagenomi Therapeutics Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Enzymes with RuvC domains" was invented by Brian C. Thomas (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher Brown (Albany, Calif.), Rose Kantor (San Mateo, Calif.), Audra Devoto (Berkeley, Calif.), Cristina Butterfield (Oakland, Calif.), Lisa Alexander (Albany, Calif.), Daniela S.A. Goltsman (Oakland, Calif.) and Jason Liu (Oakland, 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 enzymes or variants thereof."

The patent was filed on May 20, 2...