US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE on Sept. 9 for "Methods for generating, and sequencing from, asymmetric adaptors on the ends of polynucleotide templates comprising hairpin loops" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,426, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods for generating, and sequencing from, asymmetric adaptors on the ends of polynucleotide templates comprising hairpin loops" was invented by Niall Anthony Gormley (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an asymmetric closed-ended double stranded nucleic acid template from a double stranded nucleic acid template having free 5' and 3' ends by use of hairpin or dumbbell adaptors, and sequencing therefrom."

The patent was filed on Oct. 23, 2020, under Application No. 17/600,046.

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