ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,114, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Nucleic acid library preparation using electrophoresis" was invented by Niall Anthony Gormley (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for performing chemical or enzymatic reactions using electrophoresis. Devices, systems, and methods for preparing a library of tagged nucleic acid fragments from a target double-stranded nucleic acid using electrophoresis are also provided. Application of one or more electric fields causes molecules to migrate through the electrophoresis gel matrix."
The patent was filed on Jul...