US Patent Issued to Watchmaker Genomics on Sept. 9 for "Methods and compositions for sequencing library normalization" (American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,469, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Watchmaker Genomics Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Methods and compositions for sequencing library normalization" was invented by Martin Ranik (Boulder, Colo.), Eric van der Walt (Cape Town, South Africa), Clara Ross (Lafayette, Colo.), Craig Marshall (Boulder, Colo.), Lindsay Peterkin (Longmont, Colo.), Brian Kudlow (Boulder, Colo.) and Travis J. Sanders (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for normalizing polynucleotide concentration. Normalizing may be accomplished using polynucleotide binding proteins (e.g., catalytically inactive CRISPR pro...