Patents by Inventor Daniel Francis Voytas

Daniel Francis Voytas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • CRISPR-SYSTEMS FOR MODIFYING A TRAIT OF INTEREST IN A PLANT
    Publication number: 20190352652
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to plants comprising a CRISPR system or parts of a CRISPR system, compositions, containers, polynucleotide, vectors, delivery systems, parts of plants, methods for production, CRISPR systems, and components thereof. Further aspects of the invention include a method for identifying a CRISPR system which is functional in a plant cell and a method for improving a CRISPR system in a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Omar ABUDAYYEH, Joseph John BELANTO, Jonathan GOOTENBERG, Colby Garret STARKER, Daniel Francis VOYTAS, Feng ZHANG
  • METHOD FOR EDITING A GENETIC SEQUENCE
    Publication number: 20170175143
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, polynucleotides, cells, compositions, and treatment methods that involve channeling a genomic nucleotide sequence. Generally, the method includes introducing a donor polynucleotide and a nucleotide that encodes an enzyme that cuts at least one strand of DNA into a cell that has a genomic sequence in need of editing, allowing the enzyme to cut at least one strand of the genomic sequence, and allowing the donor sequence to replace the genomic sequence in need of editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Jakub Tolar, Bruce Robert Blazar, Daniel Francis Voytas, Mark John Osborn