US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on June 30 for "Methods for manipulating biomolecules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,825, issued on June 30, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Methods for manipulating biomolecules" was invented by Zhoutao Chen (Carlsbad, Calif.), Xiaoping Duan (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Kyusung Park (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the present teachings provide compositions, systems, methods and kits for generating a population of nucleic acid fragments. In some embodiments, nucleic acids can be fragmented enzymatically. For example, methods for generating a population of nucleic acid fragments can include a nucleic acid nicking reaction. In one embodiment, the methods can inc...