US Patent Issued to COLOR HEALTH on July 8 for "Methods for depletion of high-copy sequences in multiplexed whole genome sequencing libraries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,798, issued on July 8, was assigned to COLOR HEALTH INC. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Methods for depletion of high-copy sequences in multiplexed whole genome sequencing libraries" was invented by David Lee (San Francisco) and Justin Lock (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depleted sequencing library can be prepared by providing a composition comprising a heterogeneous mixture of linear nucleic acids having a first terminus and a second terminus. A first subset of target nucleic acids and a second subset of non-target nucleic acids can include a first adaptor region at the first terminus and a second adaptor region at the secon...