US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on July 14 for "Compositions and methods for DNA cytosine carboxymethylation" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,128, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Compositions and methods for DNA cytosine carboxymethylation" was invented by Rahul Kohli (Penn Valley, Pa.), Tong Wang (Philadelphia) and Emily Schutsky (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for carboxymethylation of cytosine containing DNA and applications thereof for direct sequencing of 5mC are disclosed."

The patent was filed on May 19, 2021, under Application No. 17/999,260.

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