US Patent Issued to Genefirst on May 13 for "Methods, compositions, and kits for preparing nucleic acid libraries" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,484, issued on May 13, was assigned to Genefirst Ltd. (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

"Methods, compositions, and kits for preparing nucleic acid libraries" was invented by Guoliang Fu (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Thomas Dunwell (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to methods, compositions and kits for extending a polynucleotide and for preparing sequencing library of polynucleotides involving generating modified target polynucleotide on an adaptor template oligonucleotide and tagging one or two strands of a target sequence. The sequencing library is suitable for massive parallel sequenc...