US Patent Issued to Takara Bio USA on Dec. 16 for "Methods of depleting a target molecule from an initial collection of nucleic acids, and compositions and kits for practicing the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,647, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Takara Bio USA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods of depleting a target molecule from an initial collection of nucleic acids, and compositions and kits for practicing the same" was invented by Andrew Alan Farmer (Los Altos, Calif.), Craig Betts (San Jose, Calif.) and Nathalie Bolduc (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of depleting a target nucleic acid from an initial collection of nucleic acids. Aspects of the methods include contacting the initial collection with a nucleic acid guided nuclease specific for the target nucleic acid in a manner sufficient to...