US Patent Issued to ALIDA BIOSCIENCES on March 25 for "RNA and DNA analysis using engineered surfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,631, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALIDA BIOSCIENCES INC. (San Diego).

"RNA and DNA analysis using engineered surfaces" was invented by Gudrun Stengel (San Diego), Hua Yu (San Diego), Andrew Price (San Diego), Jerome Santos (San Diego), Yu-Hsien Hwang-Fu (San Diego) and Byron Purse (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for the multiplexed profiling of RNA and DNA modifications across transcriptomes and genomes, respectively. The methods combine molecular recognition of non-canonical features (e.g., base modifications, backbone modifications, lesions, and/or structural elements) ...