US Patent Issued to Illumina on May 13 for "Methods and means for preparing a library for sequencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,565, issued on May 13, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and means for preparing a library for sequencing" was invented by Frank J. Steemers (Encinitas, Calif.), Dmitry K. Pokholok (San Diego) and Lena Christiansen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems, methods, and compositions provided herein relate to assays for selectively controlling enzymatic reactions. Some embodiments relate to methods of inhibiting, reducing, or eliminating secondary DNA (such as mitochondrial DNA) sequencing reads from open chromatic sequencing, whole genome sequencing, or targeted sequencing."

The patent was fi...