US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on June 9 for "Use of DNA:RNA duplex fragmentation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,920, issued on June 9, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Use of DNA:RNA duplex fragmentation" was invented by Rahul Rattan (Brighton, Mich.), Jeffrey Perry (Plymouth, Mich.), Marta Gonzalez-Plasky (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) and Stephanie Spohn (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of generating cDNAs from RNA involving cleavage of DNA/RNA complexes are provided."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2022, under Application No. 18/073,377.

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