US Patent Issued to Illumina, Illumina Cambridge on Oct. 7 for "Compositions and methods for improving library enrichment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,362, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Compositions and methods for improving library enrichment" was invented by Andrew F. Slatter (Cambridge, Great Britain), Junhua Zhao (San Diego), Grace DeSantis (San Diego), Stephen M. Gross (San Diego), Hayley Marianne Hogan (San Diego), Jian-Sen Li (San Diego) and Oliver Jon Miller (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a hybridization buffer including a crowding agent, a method that includes using the hybridization buffer, and a kit including the hybridization buffer. ...