US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College; on May 19 for "Devices for CRISPR effector system based diagnostics" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,867, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College; (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Devices for CRISPR effector system based diagnostics" was invented by Omar Abudayyeh (Cambridge, Mass.), James Joseph Collins (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Gootenberg (Cambridge, Mass.), Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Eric S. Lander (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein utilized RNA targeting effectors to provide a robust CRISPR-based diagnostic with attomolar sensitivity. Embodiments ...