ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,688, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Metagenomi Therapeutics Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Enzymes with RUVC domains" was invented by Brian Thomas (Emeryville, Calif.), Christopher Brown (Emeryville, Calif.), Rose Kantor (Emeryville, Calif.), Audra Devoto (Emeryville, Calif.), Cristina Butterfield (Emeryville, Calif.), Lisa Alexander (Emeryville, Calif.), Daniela S. A. Goltsman (Emeryville, Calif.) and Jason Liu (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 ...