US Patent Issued to Tecan Genomics on April 14 for "Depletion of abundant uninformative sequences" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,963, issued on April 14, was assigned to Tecan Genomics Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Depletion of abundant uninformative sequences" was invented by Bin Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Lin Pham (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The use of different primer sets in reverse transcription incorporates tags allowing for the selective amplification of cDNA transcribed using the different primers. Primers targeting non-desired RNA sequences such as ribosomal RNA can be used to prevent subsequent amplification of cDNA transcribed from those non-coding fragments. Accordingly effective depletion of non-desired sequences after cDNA am...