ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,284, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Liquid sample loading" was invented by Bradley Kent Drews (Poway, Calif.), Gudrun Stengel (San Diego), James Christopher Blake (La Jolla, Calif.), Mohammed Kafeel Ahamed (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael Steven Becker (Del Mar, Calif.), Michael Dangelo (San Diego), Mark J. Nibbe (San Diego), Daniel L. Fuller (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Oliver Jon Miller (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The assembly includes a docking console and a manifold. The docking console includes a cartridge support s...