ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,353, issued on June 17, was assigned to Complete Genomics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"DNA concatemers on a surface" was invented by Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Matthew J. Callow (Redwood City, Calif.), Snezana Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Brian K. Hauser (Campbell, Calif.) and George Yeung (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Random arrays of single molecules are provided for carrying out large scale analyzes, particularly of biomolecules, such as genomic DNA, cDNAs, proteins, and the like. In one aspect, arrays of the invention comprise concatemers of DNA fragments that are randomly disposed on a r...