US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Feb. 3 for "Light-activated coupling of oligonucleotides to polymers" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,220, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Light-activated coupling of oligonucleotides to polymers" was invented by Weixian Xi (San Diego), Tanmay Ghonge (San Diego), Sahngki Hong (San Diego) and Alexandra Szemjonov (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various examples of a method of coupling oligonucleotides to a polymer. The method may include selectively irradiating first inactive moieties in a one or more first region of a polymer with light, while not irradiating second inactive moieties in a one or more second region of the polymer, to generate first active moietie...