US Patent Issued to Illumina, Illumina Cambridge on May 26 for "Methods, compositions and kits to improve seeding efficiency of flow cells with polynucleotides" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,707, issued on May 26, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Methods, compositions and kits to improve seeding efficiency of flow cells with polynucleotides" was invented by Yir-Shyuan Wu (San Diego), Filiz Gorpe-Yasar (San Diego), Tarun Kumar Khurana (San Diego) and Jonathan Mark Boutell (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for improving seeding efficiency of flow cells with polynucleotides, and applications thereof, including for sequencing."

The patent was filed on Jan. 28, 2022, under Application No. 18/...