US Patent Issued to Pacific Biosciences of California on Feb. 25 for "Loading nucleic acids onto substrates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,391, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Loading nucleic acids onto substrates" was invented by Lei Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Jaime Juan Benitez-Marzan (Fremont, Calif.), Natasha Popovich (Belmont, Calif.), Sassan Sheikholeslami (Berkeley, Calif.), Steven Lin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Aparna Vedula (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael W. Hunkapiller (Menlo Park, Calif.), Erik Miller (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Satwik Kamtekar (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions, and systems for distributing nucleic acids into array regions are provided. The methods, co...