US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Nov. 25 for "Method for generating extended sequence reads" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,115, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Method for generating extended sequence reads" was invented by Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, Calif.), William F. Burkholder (Singapore) and Lewis Z. Hong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an approach to increase the effective read length of commercially available sequencing platforms to several kilobases and be broadly applied to obtain long sequence reads from mixed template populations. A method for generating extended sequence reads of long DNA molecules in a sample, comprising the steps of assigni...