US Patent Issued to Illumina Cambridge on Oct. 27 for "Surface-based tagmentation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,462, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Surface-based tagmentation" was invented by Niall Anthony Gormley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Avgousta Ioannou (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rosamond Jackson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Natalie Morrell (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are methods and compositions surface-based tagmentation. In particular embodiments, methods of preparing an immobilized library of fragmented and tagged DNA molecules on a solid surface are presented. In particular embodiments, the solid surface comprises immobilized tra...