US Patent Issued to Element Biosciences on Dec. 9 for "Methods for generating circular nucleic acid molecules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,396, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Element Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for generating circular nucleic acid molecules" was invented by Matthew Kellinger (San Diego), Sinan Arslan (San Diego), Michael Previte (San Diego) and Junhua Zhao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for generating circular nucleic acid molecules and circular nucleic acid libraries. The methods can be used to generate clonal populations of target nucleic acid molecules for downstream applications such as sequencing."

The patent was filed on May 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/320,042.

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