US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College, The New York Genome Center, New York University on Feb. 10 for "Methods for designing guide sequences for guided nucleases" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,638, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.), President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.), The New York Genome Center (New York) and New York University (New York).

"Methods for designing guide sequences for guided nucleases" was invented by Neville Sanjana (New York), Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Joshua A. Meier (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, including computer-implemented methods, for designing guide sequence which may be incorporated into custom, large...