ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,091, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Immobilization in flow cells" was invented by Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego), Tarun Kumar Khurana (Fremont, Calif.), Mathieu Lessard-Viger (San Diego), Clifford Lee Wang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Yir-Shyuan Wu (Albany, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a target material is immobilized on two opposed sequencing surfaces of a flow cell using first and second fluids. The first fluid has a density less than a target material density and the second fluid has a density greater than the target material density; or the second fluid has a density less than the ...