US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, ARCHERDX on July 29 for "Methods of preparing nucleic acids for sequencing" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,732, issued on July 29, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and ARCHERDX LLC (San Francisco).

"Methods of preparing nucleic acids for sequencing" was invented by Anthony John Iafrate (Newton, Mass.), Long Phi Le (Boston), Zongli Zheng (Boston), Jason Myers (Golden, Colo.) and Joshua Stahl (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology disclosed herein relate to methods for preparing and analyzing nucleic acids. In some embodiments, methods for preparing nucleic acids for sequence analysis (e.g., using next-generation sequencing) are provided herein."

The patent was filed on Oct. 4, 2023, und...