ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,757, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Methods for 3' overhang repair" was invented by Eleen Shum (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of repairing a partially double-stranded DNA fragment are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise (a) contacting the partially double-stranded DNA fragment with one or more primers of a primer population, wherein the partially double-stranded DNA fragment comprises a 3' overhang and the primer population comprises a random target-hybridizing sequence; (b) extending one or more primers of the primer population along the DNA f...