ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,077, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Linked dual barcode insertion constructs" was invented by Ali Bashir (Mountain View, Calif.), Marc Berndl (Mountain View, Calif.), Annalisa Pawlosky (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jun Kim (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contemporary gene sequencing techniques, including "Next Generation Sequencing" techniques, can include sequencing a plurality of fragments of a target polynucleotide. However, tire limitations of existing sequencing techniques, and the often repetitive or otherwise difficult-to-sequence structure of natural polynucleotides...