ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,274, issued on July 28, was assigned to MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for detecting CRISPR-mediated residues within methylated patterns of genome using a convolutional neural network" was invented by Heath Farris (McLean, Va.), Tyrone V. Patterson III (McLean, Va.), Eliza M. Mace (McLean, Va.), Patrick Hinson (McLean, Va.) and Kris Rosfjord (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable medium for detecting a CRISPR-edited genome are disclosed. Certain embodiments of the system may include one or more processors configured to receive sequence data of a genome; generate an image r...