US Patent Issued to Pacific Biosciences of California on Sept. 2 for "Methods and compositions for stabilizing nucleic acid-nucleotide-polymerase complexes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,549, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for stabilizing nucleic acid-nucleotide-polymerase complexes" was invented by Morassa Mohseni Middleton (San Diego), Mark C. Wallen (San Diego), Pinar Iyidogan (San Diego), Michael James Schmidt (San Diego), Brittany A. Rohrman (La Jolla, Calif.), Ying Lin Liu (San Diego), Fabian Block (San Diego) and Arnold Oliphant (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions, kits and apparatuses that include a fluid, the fluid containing a ternary complex and Li+, wherein the ternary complex i...