US Patent Issued to The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College on Feb. 24 for "CRISPR/Cas and transposase based amplification compositions, systems and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,786, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"CRISPR/Cas and transposase based amplification compositions, systems and methods" was invented by Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Max Kellner (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Gootenberg (Cambridge, Mass.) and Omar Abudayyeh (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and systems for detecting a target nucleic acid sequence. The method comprises contacting an oligonucleotide comprising the target nuclei...