US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Universiteit Leiden, University of Chicago on May 5 for "System and method for presenting large DNA molecules for analysis" (American, Colombian, Dutch, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,801, issued on May 5, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.), Universiteit Leiden (EZ Leiden, Netherlands) and University of Chicago (Chicago).

"System and method for presenting large DNA molecules for analysis" was invented by David C. Schwartz (Madison, Wis.), Kristy Kounovsky-Shafer (Kearney, Neb.), Juan Hernandez-Ortiz (Medellin, Colombia), Theo Odijk (Leiden, Netherlands), Juan DePablo (Chicago) and Kyubong Jo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for presenting nucleic acid molecules for analysis are provided. The nucleic acid molecules have a central portion that is ...