ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,048, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Nucleic acid synthesis techniques" was invented by Mostafa Ronaghi (San Francisco), Molly He (San Diego), Cheng-yao Chen (San Diego), Michael Previte (San Diego) and M. Shane Bowen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synthesizing a nucleic acid includes synthesizing one or more nucleic acid fragments on a substrate. The synthesized one or more nucleic acid fragments may be amplified on the substrate. The method also includes sequencing the synthesized or amplified one or more nucleic acid fragments on the substrate. The sequencing may provide fee...