US Patent Issued to QIAGEN Sciences on July 7 for "Methods and kits for highly multiplex single primer extension" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,195, issued on July 7, was assigned to QIAGEN Sciences LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Methods and kits for highly multiplex single primer extension" was invented by Yexun Wang (Ellicott City, Md.) and Quan Peng (Clarksburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and kits for highly multiplex single primer extensions using a MutS protein and Mg2+ at a concentration higher than that in a typical PCR reaction. Also disclosed is the use of such methods and kits in next generation sequencing."

The patent was filed on Jan. 29, 2021, under Application No. 17/162,571.

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