ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,888, issued on May 20, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Method to produce chemical pattern in micro-fluidic structure" was invented by Shang-Ying Tsai (Pingzhen, Taiwan), Li-Min Hung (Longtan Township, Taiwan), Jung-Huei Peng (Jhubei, Taiwan), Shane Bowen (San Diego), Hui Han (San Diego), Danny Chan (San Diego) and Sang Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow cell includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a first resin layer disposed over an inner surface of the first substrate; a second resin layer disposed over an inner surface of the second substrate; a first plurality of biological capture sites lo...