US Patent Issued to COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY on Oct. 6 for "Varietal counting of nucleic acids for obtaining genomic copy number information" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,435, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

"Varietal counting of nucleic acids for obtaining genomic copy number information" was invented by James Hicks (Locus Valley, N.Y.), Nicholas Navin (Houston), Jennifer Troge (Oyster Bay, N.Y.), Zihua Wang (Huntington, N.Y.) and Michael Wigler (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining from genomic material genomic copy number information unaffected by amplification distortion, comprising obtaining segments of the genomic material, tagging the segments with substantially unique tags to generate tagged nu...