US Patent Issued to Illumina on April 21 for "Methods and compositions for nucleic acid sequencing" (California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,818, issued on April 21, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for nucleic acid sequencing" was invented by Frank J. Steemers (Encinitas, Calif.), Sasan Amini (Redwood City, Calif.), Kevin L. Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.), Natasha Pignatelli (Berkeley, Calif.) and Igor Goryshin (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to sequencing nucleic acids. In particular, embodiments of the methods and compositions provided herein relate to preparing nucleic acid templates and obtaining sequence data therefrom."

The patent was filed on Jan. 12, 2023, under Applica...