US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Sept. 2 for "Incremental secondary analysis of nucleic acid sequences" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,548, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Incremental secondary analysis of nucleic acid sequences" was invented by Michael J. Carney (San Diego), Jacobus De Beer (San Diego), Hsu-Lin Tsao (San Diego), Partha Mukherjee (San Diego) and Daniel Joseph Tracy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs, for performing incremental secondary analysis of nucleic acid sequence reads. The method can include (i) obtaining first data describing a plurality of first reads generated by a nucleic acid sequencing device during a first read interval, (ii) obtaining...