US Patent Issued to Illumina on Sept. 16 for "Resin composition and flow cells incorporating the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,906, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Resin composition and flow cells incorporating the same" was invented by Yulia N. Tataurova (San Diego) and Timothy J. Merkel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a resin composition includes an epoxy resin matrix and functionalized silica nanoparticles incorporated into the epoxy resin matrix. The functionalized silica nanoparticles have an average particle size up to about 10 nm. The resin composition is imprintable using nanoimprint lithography. The resin composition may be used to manufacture a patterned substrate for a flow cell."

The paten...