US Patent Issued to Illumina on Feb. 18 for "Methods and compositions for preparing nucleic acid libraries" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,791, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for preparing nucleic acid libraries" was invented by Raquel Maria Sanches-Kuiper (Little Chesterford, Great Britain), Vincent Peter Smith (Little Chesterford, Great Britain) and Sean Humphray (Little Chesterford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provided herein relate to methods and compositions for preparing nucleic acid libraries. Some embodiments include preparing libraries from nucleic acids obtained from degraded samples, such as ancient samples and fixed samples."

The patent was filed on Nov. 1, 2022, under App...