US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA, ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE on Jan. 27 for "Separating polynucleotide fragments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,718, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego) and ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Separating polynucleotide fragments" was invented by Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo (Encinitas, Calif.), Frank Steemers (Encinitas, Calif.), Jeffrey Fisher (San Diego), Andrew Slatter (Cambridge, Great Britain), Lewis Kraft (San Diego), Niall Gormley (Cambridge, Great Britain) and M. Shane Bowen (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method, including stretching a polynucleotide over a substrate including a plurality of equally spaced cleavage regions including a plurality of transpos...