US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Baylor College of Medicine on May 27 for "Linear genome assembly from three dimensional genome structure" (Texas, Massachusetts, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,601, issued on May 27, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Baylor College of Medicine (Houston).

"Linear genome assembly from three dimensional genome structure" was invented by Erez Aiden (Houston), Olga Dudchenko (Houston, Ga.), Aviva Aiden (Houston), Elena Stamenova (Cambridge, Mass.), Sanjit Singh Batra (Houston), Arina Omer (Houston), Per Aspera Adastra (Houston), Neva Durand (Houston), Maxim Massenkoff (Cambridge, Mass.), Sarah Nyquist (Cambridge, Mass.), Anthony Tzen (Houston), Christopher Lui (Houston), Melanie Pham (Houston) and Eric Lander (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodime...