US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on May 19 for "Methods for rapid DNA extraction from tissue and library preparation for nanopore-based sequencing" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,875, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Methods for rapid DNA extraction from tissue and library preparation for nanopore-based sequencing" was invented by Samuel Zev Williams (New York) and Shan Wei (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to improved methods for preparing, sequencing and analyzing short DNA fragments using handheld, nanopore-based sequencing technology as well as improved methods for extracting DNA, in particular genomic DNA, for any downstream application."

The patent was filed on Sept. 7, 2021, under Application...