US Patent Issued to Gen9 on March 4 for "Methods for nucleic acid assembly and high throughput sequencing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,057, issued on March 4, was assigned to Gen9 Inc. (Boston).

"Methods for nucleic acid assembly and high throughput sequencing" was invented by Michael E. Hudson (Boston), Li-Yun A. Kung (Boston), Daniel Schindler (Boston), Stephen Archer (Boston) and Ishtiaq Saaem (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus of some aspects of the invention relate to the synthesis of high fidelity polynucleotides. In particular, aspects of the invention relate to concurrent enzymatic removal of amplification sequences and ligation of processed oligonucleotides into nucleic acid assemblies. According to some embodiments, the invention ...