US Patent Issued to MAX-DELBRUCK-CENTRUM FUR MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER on April 29 for "Full-length RNA sequencing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,670, issued on April 29, was assigned to MAX-DELBRUCK-CENTRUM FUR MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Berlin, Germany).

"Full-length RNA sequencing" was invented by Ivano Legnini (Berlin), Jonathan Alles (Berlin), Nikolaos Karaiskos (Berlin), Salah Ayoub (Berlin) and Nikolaus Rajewsky (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for analyzing a polyribonucleotide, wherein the polyribonucleotide is an mRNA molecule with a poly(A) tail, said method comprising: (a) obtaining a labeled polyribonucleotide by GI tailing; followed by (b) providing a second molecule comprising a first primer re...