US Patent Issued to Digital Biotechnologies on July 8 for "Nucleic acid sequencing compositions and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,869, issued on July 8, was assigned to Digital Biotechnologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Nucleic acid sequencing compositions and methods" was invented by Harlan S. Robins (Seattle) and Jason H. Bielas (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are synthetic strands for nucleic acid sequencing. In some embodiments, the strands include a plurality of rotatable molecular disks. The plurality of rotatable molecular disks comprises molecular disks each comprising a first moiety that binds to adenine (A), a second moiety that binds to cytosine (C), a third moiety that binds to guanine (G), and a fourth moiety that binds to thymine (T), uracil...