ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,098, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Primer oligonucleotide for sequencing" was invented by Pietro Gatti-Lafranconi (Cambridge, Great Britain), Philip Balding (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jonathan Mark Boutell (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polynucleotide sequencing methods employ a sequencing oligonucleotide that hybridizes to a free 3' end potion of a template polynucleotide strand with greater affinity than a surface oligonucleotide. Such sequencing oligonucleotides may be used as a primer to determine the sequence of an index sequence by extending...