US Patent Issued to New England Biolabs on Oct. 7 for "Ordered assembly of multiple DNA fragments" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,332, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to New England Biolabs Inc. (Ipswich, Mass.).

"Ordered assembly of multiple DNA fragments" was invented by Gregory Lohman (Cambridge, Mass.), John M. Pryor (Gerogetown, Mass.), Rebecca Kucera (Hamilton, Mass.), Vladimir Potapov (Auburndale, Mass.), Katharina Bilotti (Burlington, Mass.) and Richard D. Morgan (Middleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition and its uses and additionally a kit are provided. The composition is a synthetic self-complementary oligonucleotide that has a double-stranded region and a loop, wherein the double-stranded region contains a binding sequence for PaqCI...