US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 28 for "Compositions and methods for improving sequencing signals" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,540, issued on July 28, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for improving sequencing signals" was invented by Huihong You (San Diego), Samuel Caber (San Diego), Michael Chesney (San Diego), Jie Mao (San Diego), Alexandre Richez (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rebecca Macleod (San Diego), Emily Welch (San Diego), Zhong Mei (San Diego), Xiaolin Wu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Carole Anastasi (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Alexander Fuhrmann (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to compositions and kits for use in sequencing by synthesis to impro...