US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Dec. 16 for "Systems and devices for high-throughput sequencing with semiconductor-based detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,347, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Systems and devices for high-throughput sequencing with semiconductor-based detection" was invented by Dietrich Dehlinger (San Francisco), Ali Agah (Menlo Park, Calif.), Tracy Helen Fung (San Francisco), Emrah Kostem (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Craig Hetherington (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a sample surface of a biosensor includes pixel areas and holds a plurality of clusters during a sequence of sampling events such that the clusters are distributed unevenly over the pixel areas. In another embodiment, a biosensor has a sample surfa...