ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,229, issued on May 20, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Methods for simultaneous amplification of target loci" was invented by Bernhard Zimmermann (Manteca, Calif.), Matthew Hill (Belmont, Calif.), Philippe Lacroute (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Dodd (San Francisco) and Alexander Wong (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable cha...