ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,558, issued on March 17, was assigned to MORAVA INC. (Glendale, Calif.).
"Next generation sequencing" was invented by Mike Mkhitar Moradian (Glendale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method for Next Generation Sequencing which relies on the presence of the same distinct unique molecular identifier (UMI) located at each end of a linear nucleic acid molecule so that sequence reads of approximately 2 kb or longer are obtained, and which allows generation of a genomic map without the need of a reference sequence."
The patent was filed on Aug. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/446,362.
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