US Patent Issued to NCAN GENOMICS on Dec. 30 for "Methods of sequencing with linked fragments" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,723, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NCAN GENOMICS INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Methods of sequencing with linked fragments" was invented by Milenko Despotovic (Richmond, Canada), Joel Pel (Vancouver, Canada) and Andrea Marziali (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to sequencing library preparation methods. In certain embodiments, two template nucleic acids are joined together by a linking molecule, such as a PEG derivative. The linked template nucleic acids is amplified, creating linked amplicons."

The patent was filed on Oct. 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/489,381.

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