US Patent Issued to New England Biolabs on April 7 for "Compositions and methods for analyzing modified nucleotides" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,506, issued on April 7, was assigned to New England Biolabs Inc. (Ipswich, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for analyzing modified nucleotides" was invented by Romualdas Vaisvila (Ipswich, Mass.), Theodore B. Davis (Boxford, Mass.), Shengxi Guan (Stoneham, Mass.), Zhiyi Sun (Winchester, Mass.), Laurence Ettwiller (Beverly, Mass.), Lana Saleh (Hamilton, Mass.) and Thomas C. Evans Jr. (Topsfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are provided for identifying any of the presence, location and phasing of methylated and/or hydroxymethylated cytosines in nucleic acids including long stretches of DNA. In some em...