ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,362, issued on May 27, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"System and method for patterning flow cell substrates" was invented by Steven Modiano (San Diego), Dajun Yuan (San Diego) and Randall Smith (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for patterning flow cell substrates using photo-initiated chemical reactions that includes fabricating a planar waveguide flow cell by forming a layer of light coupling gratings on a glass substrate layer; depositing a core layer on the layer of light coupling gratings; depositing a cladding layer on the core layer; and forming nanowells in the cladding layer; silanizing the cladd...