ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,202, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GUANGZHOU BURNING ROCK DX Co. LTD. (Guangzhou, China).

"Compositions and methods for preparing nucleic acid libraries" was invented by Zhihong Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Tao Zheng (Guangzhou, China), Bingsi Li (Guangzhou, China), Wanglong Deng (Guangzhou, China) and Yusheng Han (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various aspects, the present disclosure provides methods, compositions, reaction mixtures, kits, and systems for preparing nucleic acid libraries, such as for polynucleotide sequencing. In some embodiments, preparation methods comprise tailing reactions, ligation reactions...