US Patent Issued to Illumina on Nov. 3 for "Methods and compositions for identifying ligands on arrays using indexes and barcodes" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,264, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for identifying ligands on arrays using indexes and barcodes" was invented by Darren Segale (San Diego), Fiona E. Black (Encinitas, Calif.), Jeffrey Dennis Brodin (San Diego), Jeffrey Fisher (San Diego), Lorenzo Berti (San Diego) and Siew Hong Leong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provided herein include methods and compositions for the detection of target ligands on an array. In some embodiments, a capture probe specifically binds to a target ligand from a sample, the location of a bead comprising the capture probe i...