ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,592, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DOVETAIL GENOMICS LLC (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

"Sample prep for DNA linkage recovery" was invented by Marco Blanchette (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Christopher John Troll (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of releasing nucleic acids from a fixed biological sample comprising contacting the fixed tissue sample to an enzyme. The disclosure further provides methods to quantify and deconvolute a population of mRNA spliced variant isoforms from a cellular transcriptome. Additionally provided herein are methods delivering a barcode to a nucleic acid sample using i...