US Patent Issued to Illumina Cambridge on Aug. 12 for "Methods and arrays for producing and sequencing monoclonal clusters of nucleic acid" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,092, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods and arrays for producing and sequencing monoclonal clusters of nucleic acid" was invented by Kevin L. Gunderson (San Diego), Jingwei Bai (San Diego), Matthew William Kellinger (San Diego), John M. Beierle (San Diego), Jonathan Mark Boutell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Roberto Rigatti (Cambridge, Great Britain), Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo (San Diego), Boyan Boyanov (San Diego) and Klaus Maisinger (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of molecular biology and more spe...