US Patent Issued to Complete Genomics on Sept. 23 for "Labeling strategy for use in DNA sequencing to facilitate assembly of sequence reads into longer fragments of a genome" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,544, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Complete Genomics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Labeling strategy for use in DNA sequencing to facilitate assembly of sequence reads into longer fragments of a genome" was invented by Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides technology for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular...