US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Aug. 26 for "Fluidic devices including fluidic channels, and methods of making the same" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,422, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Fluidic devices including fluidic channels, and methods of making the same" was invented by Steven Modiano (San Diego), Silke Musa (La Jolla, Calif.), Lewis Kraft (Acworth, Ga.), Randall Smith (San Marcos, Calif.), Sara Bakhshi (San Diego), Brian Mather (San Diego), Wayne George (Ilford, Great Britain) and Maxwell Zimmerley (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method of preparing a fluidic channel includes covalently coupling a first region of a substrate to a first region of a cover using first moieties covalently coupled to the first region o...