US Patent Issued to Illumina Cambridge on March 3 for "Methods and compositions for preparing sequencing libraries" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,716, issued on March 3, was assigned to Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods and compositions for preparing sequencing libraries" was invented by Roberto Rigatti (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Niall Anthony Gormley (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provided herein relate to methods and compositions for next generation sequencing. Some embodiments include the preparation of a template library from a target nucleic acid in contact with a surface, and sequencing the library on the surface."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2022, under Application No. 17/689,500.

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