US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Compositions and methods for immune repertoiresequencing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,663, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for immune repertoiresequencing" was invented by Timothy Looney (Austin, Texas), Chenchen Yang (Foster City, Calif.) and Geoffrey Lowman (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, kits, and systems useful in the determination and evaluation of the immune repertoire. In one aspect, target-specific primer panels provide for the effective amplification of nucleic acid sequences of murine T cell receptor and/or B cell receptor chains with improved sequencing accuracy an...