US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE on July 28 for "Methods of enriching a target sequence from a sequencing library using hairpin adaptors" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,535, issued on July 28, was assigned to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods of enriching a target sequence from a sequencing library using hairpin adaptors" was invented by Andrew Slatter (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for enriching a sequencing library comprising double-stranded nucleic acid fragments comprising preparing a library of double-stranded fragments having one or more adaptors at ends of the double-stranded fragment; denaturing the double-stranded fragments to form single-stranded fragments; and hybridizing an extension primer that binds to a ...