US Patent Issued to BIOO Scientific on March 11 for "Compositions and methods for generating massively parallel nucleic acid sequencing libraries" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,200, issued on March 11, was assigned to BIOO Scientific Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Compositions and methods for generating massively parallel nucleic acid sequencing libraries" was invented by Kevin D. Allen (Austin, Texas) and Kerry Gunning (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Oligonucleotide primers and methods of use in producing sequencing libraries are provided according to aspects of the present disclosure which include, from 5' to 3', a homopolymer-hybridizing region, and an anchor region comprising 5'-(Lambda)nNm-3', wherein the homopolymer-hybridizing region is a contiguous sequence of 5 to 20 elements, wherein the e...