US Patent Issued to Illumina on Feb. 25 for "Tagmentation using immobilized transposomes with linkers" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,451, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Tagmentation using immobilized transposomes with linkers" was invented by Grace Desantis (San Diego), Stephen M. Gross (San Diego), Jian-Sen Li (San Diego), Natalie Morrell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Slatter (Cambridge, Great Britain), Kevin Shen (San Diego) and Samantha Snow (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for treating target nucleic acids, including methods and compositions for fragmenting and tagging nucleic acid (e.g., DNA) using transposome complexes bound to a solid support."

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