US Patent Issued to Ultima Genomics on May 26 for "Methods and systems for phasing sequencing strands and long-range sequencing" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,713, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for phasing sequencing strands and long-range sequencing" was invented by Omer Barad (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), Mark Pratt (Bozeman, Mont.), Eliane Trepagnier (Oakland, Calif.), Yoav Etzioni (Tel Aviv, Israel), Florian Oberstrass (Redwood City, Calif.), Gilad Almogy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dumitru Brinza (Montara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods synchronizing sequencing primers within a sequencing cluster and methods of generating long-range sequencing reads. The methods can include hybridizing primers ...