US Patent Issued to Pacific Biosciences of California on Jan. 20 for "Methods for identifying modified bases in nucleic acid templates" (California, Georgia, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,665, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods for identifying modified bases in nucleic acid templates" was invented by Benjamin Flusberg (Atlanta), Stephen Turner (Eugene, Ore.), Jon Sorenson (Alameda, Calif.), Kevin Travers (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Cheryl Heiner (La Honda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions, and systems are provided for characterization of modified nucleic acids. In certain preferred embodiments, single molecule sequencing methods are provided for identification of modified nucleotides within nucleic acid sequences. Modificatio...