US Patent Issued to Illumina on Feb. 24 for "Platform for discovery and analysis of therapeutic agents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,864, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Platform for discovery and analysis of therapeutic agents" was invented by Molly He (San Diego), Michael Previte (San Diego), Misha Golynskiy (San Diego), Matthew William Kellinger (San Diego), Sergio Peisajovich (San Diego) and Jonathan Mark Boutell (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of characterizing candidate agents including steps of (a) providing a library of candidate agents attached to nucleic acid tags; (b) contacting the library with a solid support to attach the candidate agents to the solid support, whereby an array of candidate agents is f...