US Patent Issued to Illumina on Sept. 30 for "Spatial indexing of genetic material and library preparation using hydrogel beads and flow cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,680, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Spatial indexing of genetic material and library preparation using hydrogel beads and flow cells" was invented by Tarun Kumar Khurana (Fremont, Calif.), Yir-Shyuan Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Xi-Jun Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Filiz Gorpe-Yasar (Fremont, Calif.), Yan-You Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Victoria Popic (Fremont, Calif.), Erich B. Jaeger (Fremont, Calif.) and Mostafa Ronaghi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of a method for seeding sequence libraries on a surface of a sequencing flow cell that allow for spatial segregation of the libraries ...