ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,555, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"Systems and related pump manifold assemblies" was invented by Bradley Drews (San Diego), Reto Schoch (Menlo Park, Calif.), Tarun Khurana (Fremont, Calif.) and Minsoung Rhee (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a flow cell interface adapted to be coupled to a flow cell having a plurality of channels and a pump manifold assembly carrying pump valves and pumps and including pump-channel fluidic lines, pump fluidic lines, and a shared fluidic line. The pump valves and the pumps are operable to individually control fluid flow through each channe...