US Patent Issued to Element Biosciences on Nov. 11 for "Primary analysis in next generation sequencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,162, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Element Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Primary analysis in next generation sequencing" was invented by Chunhong Zhou (San Diego), Semyon Kruglyak (San Diego), Francisco Garcia (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Minghao Guo (San Diego), Haosen Wang (San Diego) and Ryan Kelley (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image data analysis, particularly identifying cluster locations for performing base-calling in a digital flow cell image during DNA sequencing, is described. Each nucleic acid template molecule immobilized on a support may include an insert sequence and a sample index sequence. The sample i...