US Patent Issued to Pacific Biosciences of California on Oct. 7 for "Methods and compositions for sequencing double stranded nucleic acids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,370, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for sequencing double stranded nucleic acids" was invented by Kurt Patterson (San Diego), Hari K. K. Subramanian (San Diego), Brittany A. Rohrman (San Diego) and Fabian Block (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining sequences from sense and antisense strands of a nucleic acid, including (a) providing a nucleic acid cluster attached to a solid support, wherein the nucleic acid cluster includes a sense strand an antisense strand of a concatemer, the concatemer including multiple copies o...