ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,734, issued on June 3, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Reagent nozzle sipper mixing system and method" was invented by Bradley Kent Drews (Poway, Calif.), Michael Dai Wang (San Diego), Umberto Ulmanella (San Diego), James Michael Osmus (San Diego), Stephen Wayne Clark (San Diego), Johanna Lynn Whitacre (San Diego), Steven Scott Phelps (San Diego), Michelle L. Alvarez (San Diego), Michael Adalbert Niziolek (San Diego), Debra Sue Bryan (San Diego) and Joshua Augustin Darland (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis instrument may perform analytical operations on an analyte that is combined with multiple reagents...