US Patent Issued to PetaOmics on Dec. 9 for "Methods and compositions for genomic target enrichment and selective DNA sequencing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,423, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PetaOmics Inc. (San Marcos, Texas).

"Methods and compositions for genomic target enrichment and selective DNA sequencing" was invented by Paul M. Lizardi (San Antonio) and Brent W. Ferguson (Cedar Creek, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It has been established that one or more large double stranded DNA fragments (each 2,000 to 40,000 base pairs in size) can be captured and isolated from genomic DNA fragments using sequence specific PNA hybridization probes. Compositions and methods for enrichment of a multiplicity of long DNA sequences selected from the genome of any eukaryote are provided. C...