ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,136, issued on July 8, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Flow cell coating methods" was invented by Neil Brahma (San Diego), Tyler J. Dill (San Diego), Michelle Kate Fu (San Diego), Brian A. Hanos (Carlsbad, Calif.), Sahngki Hong (San Diego), Brinda Kodira Cariappa (San Diego) and Lewis J. Kraft (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a water-soluble protective coating solution is applied over a bonding region and either i) a patterned region of a patterned structure or ii) a lane region of a non-patterned structure. The patterned region includes depressions having at least a polymeric hydrogel therei...