US Patent Issued to Metagenomi Therapeutics on Oct. 27 for "Base editing enzymes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,458, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Metagenomi Therapeutics Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Base editing enzymes" was invented by Jyun-Liang Lin (Emeryville, Calif.), Alan Brooks (Emeryville, Calif.), Cristina Butterfield (Emeryville, Calif.), Christopher Brown (Emeryville, Calif.), Cindy Castelle (Emeryville, Calif.) and Brian C. Thomas (Emeryville, 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 March 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/180,009.

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