US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI ZENISIGHT on March 17 for "Gene target region enrichment method and kit" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,606, issued on March 17, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZENISIGHT LTD. (Shanghai).

"Gene target region enrichment method and kit" was invented by Zhiwei Guo (Shanghai), Yinghui Li (Shanghai), Qian Chen (Shanghai) and Rongjun Hu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gene target region enrichment method and a kit. The method comprises (1) amplifying fragmented DNA comprising a target region by means of a specific probe so as to obtain a captured-extension product, wherein the specific probe comprises a sequence complementary to the target region of the fragmented DNA, and the 3' terminal nucleotide of the specific probe is ...