ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,742, issued on March 18, was assigned to AXBIO INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods for processing a nucleic acid sample and compositions thereof" was invented by Hui Tian (Cupertino, Calif.), Igor Constantin Ivanov (Danville, Calif.) and Vladimir Ivanovich Bashkirov (Davis, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for processing a nucleic acid sample. For example, a method of the present disclosure may simultaneously process two populations of nucleic acid (NA) templates for two different sequencing modalities: (i) a first population comprising circularized NA templates having a size smaller tha...