US Patent Issued to Illumina, Illumina Cambridge on March 24 for "Compositions and methods for improving sample identification in indexed nucleic acid libraries" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,169, issued on March 24, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Compositions and methods for improving sample identification in indexed nucleic acid libraries" was invented by Eric Vermaas (San Diego), Mahdieh Khosroheidari (San Diego), Angela Kalbande (San Diego), Vincent Peter Smith (Cambridge, Great Britain), Claire Bevis-Mott (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jonathan Mark Boutell (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Michael Chesney (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is concerned with compositions and methods for improving the rate of correct sample...