US Patent Issued to BGI GENOMICS on Sept. 2 for "Splint nucleic acid molecule for cyclizing single-stranded nucleic acid molecule and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,506, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BGI GENOMICS Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Splint nucleic acid molecule for cyclizing single-stranded nucleic acid molecule and use thereof" was invented by Chong Tang (Guangdong, China), Juan Wang (Guangdong, China), Yiqin Tong (Guangdong, China), Linfeng Yang (Guangdong, China) and Qiang Gao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present invention are a splint nucleic acid molecule for cyclizing a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule and an application therefor. The splint nucleic acid, molecule is composed of a 5' terminal fragment and a 3' terminal fragment, the 5...