US Patent Issued to Ultima Genomics on July 7 for "Methods of sequencing nucleic acid molecules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,199, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Methods of sequencing nucleic acid molecules" was invented by Florian Oberstrass (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gilad Almogy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Linda Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Eliane Trepagnier (Oakland, Calif.) and Geunwon Jung (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for nucleic acid sequence identification. The methods may comprise bringing a plurality of nucleic acid molecules in contact with a reaction mixture including a concentration of nucleotides that results in fractional labeling of the nucleic acid molec...