ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,868, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Twist Bioscience Corp. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Polynucleotides, reagents, and methods for nucleic acid hybridization" was invented by Ramsey Ibrahim Zeitoun (Westminster, Colo.), Siyuan Chen (San Mateo, Calif.), Richard Gantt (San Francisco), Kristin D. Butcher (South San Francisco, Calif.) and E. Hutson Chilton (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions, methods and systems relating to libraries of polynucleotides such that the libraries allow for accurate and efficient hybridization after binding to target sequences. Further provided h...