ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,278, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Methods of sequencing by synthesis using a consecutive labeling scheme" was invented by Yann Astier (Livermore, Calif.), Frank Bergmann (Iffeldorf, Germany) and Dieter Heindl (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for sequencing target polynucleotide molecules. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of sequencing by synthesis where different subsets of nucleotide-conjugate complexes are sequentially formed and detected during each iterative extension of a plurality of nascent nuc...