US Patent Issued to Inivata on July 22 for "Methods of labelling nucleic acids using variable length oligonucleotides" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,940, issued on July 22, was assigned to Inivata Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods of labelling nucleic acids using variable length oligonucleotides" was invented by Samuel Woodhouse (Cambridge, Great Britain), Tim Forshew (Stevenage, Great Britain) and Stefanie Viola Lensing (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of labelling a nucleic acid of interest (NAOI) is provided. In some embodiments, the method may comprise contacting a sample comprising the nucleic acid of interest with a pool of oligonucleotides, the pool comprising oligonucleotides having at least 5 different lengths; and attaching an ol...