ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,039, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Resin composition and flow cells incorporating the same" was invented by Timothy J. Merkel (San Diego), Wayne N. George (London), Andrew A. Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Audrey Zak (San Diego), Gianluca Andrea Artioli (Cambridge, Great Britain), Julia Morrison (Grays, Great Britain), Nikolai Romanov (Cambridge, Great Britain), Lorenzo Berti (San Diego) and Graham Boud (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a resin composition includes a free radical curable resin matrix including an acrylate ...