US Patent Issued to Ultima Genomics on Aug. 5 for "Linkers and methods for optical detection and sequencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,600, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Linkers and methods for optical detection and sequencing" was invented by Linda G. Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gilad Almogy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Steven Menchen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides labeling reagents for labeling substrates such as nucleotides, proteins, antibodies, lipids, and cells. The labeling reagents provided herein may comprise fluorescent labels and semi-rigid linkers. Methods for nucleic acid sequencing using materials comprising such labeling reagents are also provided here."

The patent w...