US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on April 7 for "Methods and systems for modeling phasing effects in sequencing using termination chemistry" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,490, issued on April 7, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for modeling phasing effects in sequencing using termination chemistry" was invented by Christian Koller (Groebenzell, Germany), Marcin Sikora (Burlingame, Calif.) and Peter Vander Horn (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for nucleic acid sequencing includes receiving nucleic acid sequencing data from a sequencing instrument that receives and processes a sample nucleic acid in a sequencing-by-synthesis process. The method also includes generating a set of candidate sequences of bases for the observed or meas...