ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,860, issued on May 19, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Nucleic acid sequencing" was invented by Jared Peace (San Diego), Jeanine Montano (San Diego), Michael Niziolek (San Diego), Ark Silbergleit (San Diego), Petr Capek (San Diego) and Peter McInerney (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing templates for high throughput nucleic acid sequencing, comprising: a) providing a solid support, wherein said solid support comprises a plurality of nucleic acid primers immobilised adaptor nucleic acid sequences which hybridise to one or more of the nucleic acid primers, and the library preparation having a nucl...