US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 3 for "Methods of producing nucleic acid libraries and compositions and kits for practicing same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,321, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods of producing nucleic acid libraries and compositions and kits for practicing same" was invented by Richard Green (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Joshua Kapp (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of producing nucleic acid libraries. The methods include combining single-stranded nucleic acid binding protein-bound single-stranded nucleic acid (SSB-bound ssNA), an adapter oligonucleotide, and a splint oligonucleotide, to form complexes including the splint oligonucleotide hybridized to a terminal region...