US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on March 24 for "Preserving genomic connectivity information in fragmented genomic DNA samples" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,171, issued on March 24, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Preserving genomic connectivity information in fragmented genomic DNA samples" was invented by Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego), Frank J. Steemers (San Diego), Sasan Amini (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kevin L. Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sequencing a target nucleic acid polymer by (a) modifying a target nucleic acid polymer to produce a modified nucleic acid polymer; (b) producing fragments of the modified nucleic acid polymer, wherein the fragments are attached to locations on a solid support surface (c) determining nucleotid...