ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,569, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Flow cells" was invented by Jonathan Mark Boutell (Bishops Stortford, Great Britain), Wayne N. George (Ilford, Great Britain), Xiaoyu Ma (San Diego), Xiaolin Wu (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Weixian Xi (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a kit includes a flow cell, a primer fluid, and a cleaving fluid. The flow cell includes at least one surface functionalized with a polymeric hydrogel including azide functional groups or amine functional groups. The primer fluid includes a plurality of alkyne-containing primers, each alkyne-containing primer hav...