US Patent Issued to SEQUENOM on Nov. 3 for "Nucleic acid preparation compositions and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,215, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SEQUENOM Inc. (San Diego).

"Nucleic acid preparation compositions and methods" was invented by Michele Elizabeth Wisniewski (San Diego), William Hang Kwong (San Diego), Firouz Mohsenian (San Diego) and Jian-Hua Ding (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions to extract and enrich by, physical separation or amplification, relatively short nucleic acids from a nucleic acid composition containing a high background of longer nucleic acids (e.g., host or maternal nucleic acids; genomic nucleic acid and the like)."

The patent was filed on July 22, 2024, unde...