ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,363, issued on April 1, was assigned to LIFE TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Combinatorial barcode sequences, and related systems and methods" was invented by Earl Hubbell (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for nucleic acid sequencing is provided. The system comprises a sequencing device configured to expose a tagged polynucleotide comprising a combinatorial barcode sequence and a sample polynucleotide to sequential nucleotide flows, each flow comprising one species of nucleotide and the sequential flows being in a predetermined order based on the species of nucleotide such that exposing of the tagged ...