US Patent Issued to Roche Sequencing Solutions on Oct. 6 for "3' protected nucleotides" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,201, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"3' protected nucleotides" was invented by Frank Bergmann (Iffeldorf, Germany), Peter Crisalli (Mountain View, Calif.), Dieter Heindl (Munich), Omid Khakshoor (Lathrop, Calif.) and Meng Taing (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides 3' protected nucleotides, including those 3' protected nucleotides having a detectable tag. Systems and methods of sequencing nucleic acids using the 3' protected nucleotides are also disclosed, such as the sequencing of a nucleic acid using a nanopore or the sequencing of a n...