ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,416, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Arrays including a resin film and a patterned polymer layer" was invented by Wayne N. George (Ilford, Great Britain), Alexandre Richez (Cambourne, Great Britain), M. Shane Bowen (Encinitas, Calif.), Andrew A. Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dajun Yuan (San Diego), Audrey Rose Zak (Carlsbad, Calif.), Sean M. Ramirez (San Diego) and Raymond Campos (Santee, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an array includes a support, a cross-linked epoxy polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) resin film on...