ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,460, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to REVVITY HOLDINGS INC. (Boston).

"Barcoding of nucleic acids" was invented by Melinda Jasper (Collinswood, Australia) and Steven Myers (Glandore, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods, kits and products for barcoding of nucleic acids. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of producing nucleic acid for sequencing utilising clonal amplification on a solid substrate, the method comprising: (a) providing a nucleic acid sample for sequencing; (b) amplifying the nucleic acid sample using an amplifying primer comprising a degenera...