US Patent Issued to Element Biosciences on July 29 for "Double-stranded splint adaptors and methods of use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,743, issued on July 29, was assigned to Element Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Double-stranded splint adaptors and methods of use" was invented by William Light (Poway, Calif.), Samantha Snow (San Diego) and Junhua Zhao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions comprising nucleic acid double-stranded splint adaptors, including kits, and methods that employ the double-stranded splint adaptors. The double-stranded splint adaptors (200) can be used in a one-pot, multi-enzyme reaction to introduce one or more new adaptor sequences into a library molecule. The double-stranded splint adaptor (20...