US Patent Issued to The University of Toledo on Nov. 4 for "Methods for standardized sequencing of nucleic acids and uses thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,247, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio).

"Methods for standardized sequencing of nucleic acids and uses thereof" was invented by James C. Willey (Toledo, Ohio), Thomas Blomquist (Waterville, Ohio) and Erin Crawford (Rossford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for controlling for non-systematic error in an amplification-based next generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation are described, which method includes using an internal amplification control (IAC) sharing identical priming sites to a native nucleic acid target template of interest in a NGS library preparation."

The patent wa...