ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,041, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Kits and flow cells" was invented by Wayne N. George (Ilford, Great Britain), Brian D. Mather (San Diego), Andrew A. Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Pietro Gatti Lafranconi (Cambridge, Great Britain), Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo (Encinitas, Calif.), Antoine Francais (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Xiaohai Liu (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a kit includes a flow cell and a cleavage mix. An example flow cell includes a substrate; a catalytic polymeric hydrogel on th...