US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on July 7 for "Process for producing a chromatin conformation capture (3C) library" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,197, issued on July 7, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Process for producing a chromatin conformation capture (3C) library" was invented by James Davies (Oxford, Great Britain) and James R. Hughes (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for producing a chromatin conformation capture (3C) library. This may be used for identifying nucleic acid regions within a nucleic acid sample which interact with one another. The process comprises treating nucleic acids in a population of eukaryotic cells, the process comprising the steps: (i) immobilising th...