US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital on Sept. 8 for "Chimeric amplicon array sequencing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,401, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Chimeric amplicon array sequencing" was invented by Nir Hacohen (Boston), Aziz Al'Khafaji (Cambridge, Mass.), Paul Blainey (Cambridge, Mass.), Mehrtash Babadi (Cambridge, Mass.), Kiran V Garimella (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan Theodore Smith (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for nucleic acid sequencing, and specifically, at least in certain aspects, provides methods and composit...