US Patent Issued to ASKLEPIOS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL on March 4 for "Methods and compositions for enriching nucleic acids" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,115, issued on March 4, was assigned to ASKLEPIOS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL INC. (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for enriching nucleic acids" was invented by Anne Braae (Midlothian, Great Britain), Juan Manuel Iglesias Gonzalez (Midlothian, Great Britain), Joanna Critchley (Midlothian, Great Britain), Michael Roberts (Midlothian, Great Britain) and Ross Fraser (Midlothian, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of enriching target single-stranded nucleic acids in a mixed population of single-stranded nucleic acids. The method involves protecting the target single-strand...