US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 4 for "Compositions and methods for constructing strand specific cDNA libraries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,498, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for constructing strand specific cDNA libraries" was invented by Brad Townsley (Davis, Calif.), Michael F. Covington (Davis, Calif.) and Neelima Sinha (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions, kits and methods for the production of strand-specific cDNA libraries. The compositions, kits and methods utilize properties of double stranded polynucleotides, such as RNA-cDNA duplexes to capture and incorporate a novel sequencing adapter. The methods are useful transcriptome prof...