ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,744, issued on July 29, was assigned to Inivata Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Method of sequencing a nucleic acid of interest" 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 sequencing a nucleic acid of interest (NAOI) is provided. In some embodiments, the method may comprise providing a sample from a patient, the sample having cell-free DNA molecules comprising NAOIs, amplifying the NAOIs, ligating adapters to the NAOIs, and sequencing the NAOIs. A method of labelling a NAOIs is als...