US Patent Issued to Illumina on May 19 for "Chromenoquinoline dyes and uses in sequencing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,560, issued on May 19, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Chromenoquinoline dyes and uses in sequencing" was invented by Michael Callingham (Cambridge, Great Britain), Niall Hynes (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to chromenoquinoline dyes and their uses as fluorescent labels. For example, these dyes may be used to label nucleotides for nucleic acid sequencing."

The patent was filed on March 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/190,531.

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