US Patent Issued to Ultima Genomics on Aug. 5 for "Nucleic acid clonal amplification and sequencing methods, systems, and kits" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,593, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Nucleic acid clonal amplification and sequencing methods, systems, and kits" was invented by Abizar Lakdawalla (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Florian Oberstrass (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Chandan Shee (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for processing nucleic acid samples. Methods for processing a nucleic acid sample may comprise providing a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule comprising a partially denaturable region; partially denaturing the partially denaturable region of the double-stranded nuc...