US Patent Issued to Illumina Cambridge on April 29 for "Methods of sequencing using nucleotides with 3' acetal blocking group" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,453, issued on April 29, was assigned to Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods of sequencing using nucleotides with 3' acetal blocking group" was invented by Antoine Francais (Cambridge, Great Britain), Elena Cressina (Cambridge, Great Britain), Angelica Mariani (Cambridge, Great Britain), Adam Culley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anno Koetje (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Xiaohai Liu (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to nucleotide with acetal 3'-OH blocking groups. Also provided herein are methods of using fully functionalized nucleotides contain...