US Patent Issued to Illumina on Oct. 27 for "Compositions and methods for polynucleotide sequencing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,492, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for polynucleotide sequencing" was invented by Eric Stava (San Diego), Jens H. Gundlach (Seattle), Jeffrey G. Mandell (La Jolla, Calif.), Kevin L. Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.), Ian M. Derrington (Seattle) and Hosein Mohimani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for characterizing a target polynucleotide, including, characterizing the sequence of the target polynucleotide, using the fractional translocation steps of the target polynucleotide's translocation through a pore."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2023, ...