ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,567, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Flow cells with patterned bonding regions" was invented by Casey Scott Irvin (San Marcos, Calif.), Jonathan Ziebarth (Solana Beach, Calif.), Michael Rapp (La Jolla, Calif.), Danny Yuan Chan (San Diego), Innsu Daniel Kim (San Diego) and Avishek Aiyar (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example flow cell includes a patterned substrate having an active region and a bonding region that at least partially surrounds the active region. The active region includes first depressions defined in a layer of the patterned substrate, surface chemistry positioned in the f...