US Patent Issued to Pacific Biosciences of California on Sept. 16 for "Labeled nucleotide analogs, reaction mixtures, and methods and systems for sequencing" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,046, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Labeled nucleotide analogs, reaction mixtures, and methods and systems for sequencing" was invented by Lubomir Sebo (Redwood City, Calif.), Gene Shen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephen Yue (Eugene, Ore.), Honey Osuna (San Francisco), Yuri Lapin (Newark, Calif.), Louis Brogley (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Andrei Fedorov (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Labeled nucleotide analogs comprising at least one avidin protein, at least one dye-labeled compound, and at least one nucleotide compound are provided. The analogs are usefu...