US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 5 for "Nucleic acid sequencing methods and computer-readable media for practicing same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,603, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Nucleic acid sequencing methods and computer-readable media for practicing same" was invented by Christopher Vollmers (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Roger Volden (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Richard E. Green (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Theron Palmer (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of nucleic acid sequencing. The methods include producing a circularized DNA including a full-length cDNA and a known heterologous sequence, and performing rolling circle amplification using the circularized DNA as template to produce a...