ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,644, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Complex surface-bound transposome complexes" was invented by Andrew Slatter (Cambridge, Great Britain), Esther Musgrave-Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Susan C. Verity (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Niall Anthony Gormley (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for generating a library of tagged nucleic acid fragments without using PCR amplification, including methods and compositions for fragmenting and tagging nucleic acids (e.g., DNA) using transposome comp...