US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 19 for "Using random priming to obtain full-length V(D)J information for immune repertoire sequencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,874, issued on May 19, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Using random priming to obtain full-length V(D)J information for immune repertoire sequencing" was invented by Christina Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Margaret Nakamoto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for labeling nucleic acid targets in a sample. In some embodiments, nucleic acid targets (e.g., mRNAs) are initially barcoded on the 3' end and are subsequently barcoded on the 5' end following a template switching reaction and intermolecular and/or intramolecular hybri...