ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,086, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Sequencing by structure assembly" was invented by George M. Church (Brookline, Mass.), Richard C. Terry (Carlisle, Mass.), Frederic Vigneault (Ashland, Mass.) and Francois Vigneault (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sequencing nucleic acids is provided using sequencing by ligation and/or sequencing by hybridization."

The patent was filed on April 8, 2022, under Application No. 17/716,016.

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