US Patent Issued to Illumina on March 17 for "Error suppression in sequenced DNA fragments using redundant reads with unique molecular indices (UMIS)" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,617, issued on March 17, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Error suppression in sequenced DNA fragments using redundant reads with unique molecular indices (UMIS)" was invented by Sante Gnerre (Mountain View, Calif.), Byoungsok Jung (Atherton, Calif.), Emrah Kostem (Redwood City, Calif.), Alex Aravanis (San Mateo, Calif.), Alex So (San Diego), Xuyu Cai (Natick, Mass.), Zhihong Zhang (San Diego) and Frank J. Steemers (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments concern methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products for determining sequences of interest using unique molecular index (...