US Patent Issued to seqWell on Oct. 27 for "Compositions and methods for sequencing nucleic acids" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,485, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to seqWell Inc. (Beverly, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for sequencing nucleic acids" was invented by Joseph C. Mellor (Melrose, Mass.) and Jack T. Leonard (South Hamilton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides compositions including artificial nucleic acids, multivalent transposase reagents that include multivalent cores linked to artificial nucleic acids, tethered synaptic complexes (TSCs), and kits, as well as methods of using the same, for example, for preparation of nucleic acid libraries and sequencing."

The patent was filed on Feb. 14, 2018, under Application No. ...