US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Methods and compositions for manipulating nucleic acids" (California, New Jersey, Connecticut, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,676, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for manipulating nucleic acids" was invented by Abraham Rosenbaum (Passaic, N.J.), Collyn Seeger (Middletown, Conn.), Jeremy Gray (Larkspur, Calif.) and Hua Yu (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, compositions and kits as well as systems for manipulating nucleic acids, including implementing isothermal amplification, such as recombinase-polymerase amplification (RPA), of a nucleic acid template using a pre-seeded solid support. Provided are rapid and efficient methods for gen...