US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Dec. 16 for "Independently removable nucleic acid sequencing system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,656, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Independently removable nucleic acid sequencing system and method" was invented by Robert C. Kain (San Diego), David L. Heiner (San Diego), Chanfeng Zhao (San Diego) and Kevin Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for sequencing nucleic acids in an automated or semi-automated manner is disclosed. Sample arrays of a multitude of nucleic acid sites are processed in multiple cycles to add nucleotides to the material to be sequenced, detect the nucleotides added to sites, and to de-block the added nucleotides of blocking agents and tags ...