US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 11 for "Methods of sequencing antibody chains from hybridomas and kits for practicing same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,882, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods of sequencing antibody chains from hybridomas and kits for practicing same" was invented by Christopher Vollmers (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Rebecca DuBois (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Lena Ricemeyer (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods of sequencing antibody chains from hybridomas. In some embodiments, the methods comprise contacting hybridoma RNA with a constant region-specific reverse transcription primer, and contacting the hybridoma RNA with a reverse transcriptase ...