US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on April 22 for "Assembly of long nucleic acids by ligation using indexed splint oligos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,302, issued on April 22, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Assembly of long nucleic acids by ligation using indexed splint oligos" was invented by David Taussig (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nicholas M. Sampas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of assembling long nucleic acids by enzymatically ligating oligonucleotide molecules hybridized to an indexed splint oligonucleotide molecules. Also disclosed are oligonucleotide structures comprising an indexed splint oligonucleotide useful in performing the disclosed method."

The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 20...