US Patent Issued to Kapa Biosystems on Nov. 3 for "Methods of screening transposases by employing transposases to induce transposition of oligonucleotides comprising end sequences to generate insertion sites for sequencing" (South African, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,262, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kapa Biosystems Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Methods of screening transposases by employing transposases to induce transposition of oligonucleotides comprising end sequences to generate insertion sites for sequencing" was invented by Raeeza Allie (Strandfontein, South Africa), Michael Stuart Berry (Woodstock, South Africa), William Bourn (Plumstead, South Africa), Bjarne Faurholm (Rondebosh, South Africa), Suzanne Margaret Huddy (Kenilworth, South Africa), Martin Ranik (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Du Toit Schabort (Bellvile, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides compositi...