US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 14 for "Methods and materials for assessing nucleic acids" (Maryland, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,038, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Methods and materials for assessing nucleic acids" was invented by Nickolas Papadopoulos (Towson, Md.), Kenneth W. Kinzler (Frankford, Del.), Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore) and Joshua David Cohen (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems, kits, compositions and methods for sequencing library preparation and sequencing workflow (e.g., for the identification of mutations). In certain embodiments, provides herein systems and methods to identically barcode both strands of templates, and PCR-based enrichment of each strand that does...