ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,868, issued on July 8, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Enzyme-linked nucleotides" was invented by Christian Gloeckner (Bonn, Germany), Matthew William Kellinger (San Diego) and Lea Pickering (Caxton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are polymerase-linked nucleotides for improved distinguishing nucleotide sequences for different nucleic acid molecules. Also presented are methods and systems using the polymerase-linked nucleotides for improved distinguishing nucleotide sequences for different nucleic acid molecules."
The patent was filed on Aug. 27, 2020, under Application No. 17/005,130.
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