US Patent Issued to Sequenom on Nov. 25 for "Compositions containing identifier sequences on solid supports for nucleic acid sequence analysis" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,159, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sequenom Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions containing identifier sequences on solid supports for nucleic acid sequence analysis" was invented by Charles R. Cantor (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved solid supports and methods for analyzing target nucleotide sequences are provided herein. Certain improvements are directed to efficiently preparing nucleic acids that comprise nucleotide sequences identical to or substantially identical to one or more target nucleotide sequences, or complement thereof. The prepared nucleic acids include a reference sequence that facilitates seque...