ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,959, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Methods for nucleic acid analysis" was invented by Gilad Almogy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Florian Oberstrass (Menlo Park, Calif.), Omer Barad (Mazkeret Batya, Israel) and Chandan Shee (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and processes for increasing the efficiency and accuracy of nucleic acid sequencing using techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The methods described herein can be used to achieve clonal amplification even with a greater than Poisson distribution of beads and/or nucleic acid templa...