US Patent Issued to Illumina, Illumina Cambridge, Oregon Health and Science University on July 14 for "Methods for increasing yield of sequencing libraries" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,097, issued on July 14, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego), Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Methods for increasing yield of sequencing libraries" was invented by Andrew C. Adey (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Mulqueen (Portland, Ore.), Frank Steemers (San Diego), Dmitry K Pokholok (San Diego), Fan Zhang (San Diego) and Esther Musgrave-Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is concerned with compositions, methods, and kits for preparing a sequencing library. In one embodiment, methods include producing a library ...