US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Compositions and methods of labeling mitochondrial nucleic acids and sequencing and analysis thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,615, issued on March 25, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Compositions and methods of labeling mitochondrial nucleic acids and sequencing and analysis thereof" was invented by Mo Li (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Chongwei Bi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of labeling, amplifying, and sequencing mitochondrial DNA are provided. The labeling methods typically include using polymerase-based extension of one or more unique molecular identifier (UMI) primers along a target mitochondrial DNA template, each UMI primer including a universal primer sequence, ...