US Patent Issued to Roche Sequencing Solutions on May 13 for "Primer extension target enrichment and improvements thereto including simultaneous enrichment of DNA and RNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,491, issued on May 13, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Primer extension target enrichment and improvements thereto including simultaneous enrichment of DNA and RNA" was invented by Brian Christopher Godwin (Livermore, Calif.) and Sedide Ozturk (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method and compositions for primer extension target enrichment of nucleic acids and improvements thereto including simultaneously enriching for RNA and DNA and optionally sequencing the enriched products."

The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2022, under Application No. 18/046,058....