ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,492, issued on May 13, was assigned to Wobble Genomics Ltd. (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
"Amplification of single stranded DNA" was invented by Richard Izen Kuo (Lothian, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods, kits and compositions for selective amplification of single stranded DNA. The invention is useful in generating a normalized cDNA fraction and it can be used in various RNA and DNA sequencing applications to amplify DNA templates having pre-attached adapters. We describe a method of selective amplification of single stranded cDNA. We also describe an oligonucleotide dimer compositi...