US Patent Issued to QIAGEN Sciences on July 29 for "Primers with self-complementary sequences for multiple displacement amplification" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,740, issued on July 29, was assigned to QIAGEN Sciences LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Primers with self-complementary sequences for multiple displacement amplification" was invented by Yexun Wang (Ellicott City, Md.) and Quan Peng (Clarksburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides primers, primer sets, kits and methods for multiple displacement amplification, especially in combination with nucleic acid sequencing. The primers comprise self-complementary sequences at their 5' termini and random or semi-random sequences at their 3' termini. Use of such primers facilitates handling of multiple samples, increases s...