US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK on June 17 for "DNA sequencing with non-fluorescent nucleotide reversible terminators and cleavable label modified nucleotide terminators" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,352, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"DNA sequencing with non-fluorescent nucleotide reversible terminators and cleavable label modified nucleotide terminators" was invented by Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), Dae Hyun Kim (Northbrook, Ill.), Jia Guo (Chandler, Ariz.), Qinglin Meng (Foster City, Calif.), Zengmin Li (Flushing, N.Y.) and Huanyan Cao (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a process for sequencing nucleic acids using 3' modified deoxynucleotide analogues or 3' modified deoxyinosine triphosphate analogues, and ...