US Patent Issued to Roche Sequencing Solutions, Kapa Biosystems on April 1 for "Target enrichment by unidirectional dual probe primer extension" (American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,315, issued on April 1, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Kapa Biosystems Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Target enrichment by unidirectional dual probe primer extension" was invented by Daniel Burgess (Black Earth, Wis.), Brian Christopher Godwin (Livermore, Calif.), Alexander Lovejoy (Newark, Calif.), Bronwen Miller (Cape Town, South Africa), Jo-Anne Elizabeth Penkler (Cape Town, South Africa), Joseph Platzer (Oakland, Calif.) and Martin Ranik (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for enrichment of at least one target nucleic acid in a library ...