US Patent Issued to Illumina, Illumina Cambridge on July 15 for "Flow cell including a heteropolymer" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,053, issued on July 15, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (CA, Great Britain) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Flow cell including a heteropolymer" was invented by Wayne N. George (Ilford, Great Britain), Ludovic Vincent (San Diego), Andrew A. Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Mathieu Lessard-Viger (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow cell includes a support and a heteropolymer attached to the support. The heteropolymer includes an acrylamide monomer including an attachment group to react with a functional group attached to a primer, and a monomer including a stimuli-responsive functional group. The...