US Patent Issued to Illumina on Feb. 17 for "Fluorescent dyes containing fused tetracyclic bis-boron heterocycle and uses in sequencing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,814, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Fluorescent dyes containing fused tetracyclic bis-boron heterocycle and uses in sequencing" was invented by Michael Callingham (Cambridge, Great Britain), Justyna Piekos (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Francesca Manni (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to dyes containing fused tetracyclic bis-boron containing heterocycle and their uses as fluorescent labels. These dyes may be used as fluorescent labels for nucleotides in nucleic acid sequencing applications."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2023, under Applicatio...