US Patent Issued to Illumina on April 22 for "Compositions and methods for the amplification of nucleic acids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,350, issued on April 22, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for the amplification of nucleic acids" was invented by Jian-Bing Fan (San Diego), Kevin L. Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.), Frank J. Steemers (Encinitas, Calif.), Dmitry K. Pokholok (San Marcos, Calif.) and Fiona Kaper (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for the amplification of nucleic acids, including, but not limited to, the amplification of nucleic acid libraries and whole genome amplification."

The patent was filed on Nov. 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/098,840.

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