ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,665, issued on May 13, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Flow cells and methods for making the same" was invented by Sahngki Hong (San Diego) and Lewis J. Kraft (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example flow cell includes a multi-layer stack including a transparent base support; a patterned sacrificial layer over the transparent base support; and a transparent layer over the patterned sacrificial layer. The flow cell further includes first and second functionalized layers over different portions of the transparent layer, wherein at least one of the first and second functionalized layers aligns with a pattern of t...