US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 29 for "Methods and compositions using one-sided transposition" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,690, issued on July 29, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions using one-sided transposition" was invented by Frank J. Steemers (Encinitas, Calif.), Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego), Kevin L. Gunderson (San Diego), Sasan Amini (Redwood City, Calif.) and Christian Gloeckner (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provided herein relate to methods and compositions for next generation sequencing. Some embodiments include the preparation of a template library from a target nucleic acid using one-sided transposition, sequencing the template library, and capturing the contiguity information."

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