ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,278, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Accelerated sequencing methods" was invented by Mark Pratt (Bozeman, Mont.), Gilad Almogy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dumitru Brinza (Montara, Calif.), Eliane Trepagnier (Oakland, Calif.), Omer Barad (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), Yoav Etzioni (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Florian Oberstrass (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods of generating a coupled sequencing read pair for a polynucleotide, and methods of analyzing the coupled sequencing read pair. The coupled sequencing read pair can be analyzed to detect polynucleotide varian...