US Patent Issued to Illumina on May 13 for "Conformational probes and methods for sequencing nucleic acids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,498, issued on May 13, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Conformational probes and methods for sequencing nucleic acids" was invented by Molly He (San Diego), Cheng-Yao Chen (San Diego), Eric Kool (Stanford, Calif.), Mostafa Ronaghi (San Diego), Michael Previte (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Rigo Pantoja (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method of determining a sequence of nucleotides for a nucleic acid template. The method can include the steps of contacting the nucleic acid template with a conformationally labeled polymerase and at least four different nucleotide species under conditions ...