US Patent Issued to Illumina on May 13 for "Hybrid glass plastic flow cell and fabrication methods" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,333, issued on May 13, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid glass plastic flow cell and fabrication methods" was invented by Jonathan Ziebarth (La Jolla, Calif.), Jon Aday (Escondido, Calif.), Paul Crivelli (San Diego), Gerald Kreindl (Sankt Florian am Inn, Austria) and Amit Sharma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein include various examples of a method for manufacturing aspects of flow cell. The method may include performing chemical processes on a surface of the patterned wafer to prepare the surface of the patterned, singulating the wafer into individual dies, orienting each die on a temporary s...