US Patent Issued to ZYMO RESEARCH on Nov. 18 for "Methods for species-level resolution of microorganisms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,601, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ZYMO RESEARCH Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods for species-level resolution of microorganisms" was invented by Ryan Kemp (Irvine, Calif.), Mike Weinstein (Irvine, Calif.) and Shuiquan Tang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided for the identification and/or quantification of microbes. In particular, the methods comprise: (a) extracting DNA from a microbial sample; (b) performing 16S ribosomal RNA gene-targeted sequencing to obtain DNA sequences; and (c) analyzing the DNA sequences to identify the species of the one or more microbes."

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