US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE on Nov. 3 for "Nucleic acid sequencing methods and systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,276, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Nucleic acid sequencing methods and systems" was invented by Kandaswamy Vijayan (San Diego), Eugene Tu (San Diego) and Mark A. Bernard (Power, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions, methods and systems for sequencing a template nucleic acid using a polymerase based, nucleic acid binding reaction involving examination of the interaction between a polymerase and template nucleic acid in the presence of one or more unlabeled nucleotides. The methods rely, in part, on identifying a base of a template nuc...