US Patent Issued to Illumina on June 30 for "Methods for improving polynucleotide cluster clonality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,839, issued on June 30, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for improving polynucleotide cluster clonality" was invented by Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego) and Minghao Guo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is concerned with compositions and methods for improving the generation of monoclonal clusters in an array by tuning the degree of homology between target nucleic acid adapters and the primers attached to the array to encode a kinetic delay into seeded target nucleic acids."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2019, under Application No. 16/719,516.

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