US Patent Issued to QIAGEN Sciences on Feb. 4 for "Integrative DNA and RNA library preparations and uses thereof" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,314, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to QIAGEN Sciences LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Integrative DNA and RNA library preparations and uses thereof" was invented by Yexun Wang (Ellicott City, Md.), Quan Peng (Clarksburg, Md.) and Daniel Kim (Brunswick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to integrated DNA and RNA library preparations and methods of making and uses thereof, wherein the DNA molecules are labelled with a tag identifying the molecule as being a DNA molecule and the RNA molecules are labelled with a tag identifying the molecule as being a RNA molecule. The methods do not require physical separation of DNA and...