US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Nucleic acid amplification" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,485, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Nucleic acid amplification" was invented by Chieh-Yuan Li (Hayward, Calif.), David Ruff (Oxford, Great Britain), Shiaw-Min Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Jennifer O'Neil (Wakefield, Mass.), Rachel Kasinskas (Amesbury, Mass.), Jonathan Rothberg (Guilford, Conn.), Bin Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kai Qin Lao (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, kits and systems for nucleic acid amplification. In some embodiments, nucleic acid amplification methods include subjecting the nucleic acid to be ampli...