ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,320, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to seqWell Inc. (Beverly, Mass.).

"Methods for normalizing nucleic acid samples" was invented by Joseph C. Mellor (Melrose, Mass.) and Jack T. Leonard (South Hamilton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention features, inter alia, compositions and methods for normalizing nucleic acid-containing samples. Fragments from each of the plurality of original samples are normalized in parallel. The compositions of the invention encompass the various constructs described herein, which may be variously packaged with one or more additional reagents useful in the present methods and instructio...