US Patent Issued to Illumina on June 30 for "Oligonucleotide replacement for di-tagged and directional libraries" (Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,792, issued on June 30, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Oligonucleotide replacement for di-tagged and directional libraries" was invented by Igor Goryshin (Madison, Wis.), Bradley Baas (San Diego), Ramesh Vaidyanathan (Madison, Wis.) and Mark Maffitt (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transposomes and oligonucleotide replacement methods to make DNA libraries that have distinct 5' and 3' tags, and to make directional libraries that are enriched for a desired strand."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2021, under Application No. 17/244,365.

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