US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 12 for "Preparation of templates for methylation analysis" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,085, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Preparation of templates for methylation analysis" was invented by Niall Anthony Gormley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andreas Gnirke (Cambridge, Mass.), David Jaffe (Cambridge, Mass.) and Harris Nusbaum (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of preparing and using a library of template polynucleotides suitable for use as templates in solid-phase nucleic acid amplification and sequencing reactions to determine the methylation status of the c...