ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,449, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Flow cells" was invented by Yir-Shyuan Wu (Albany, Calif.), Tarun Kumar Khurana (Fremont, Calif.), Yasaman Farshchi (San Francisco), Xi-Jun Chen (San Carlos, Calif.) and Bernard Hirschbein (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a flow cell includes a substrate and a cationic polymeric hydrogel on the substrate. The cationic polymeric hydrogel includes a cationic moiety that is i) integrated into a monomeric unit of an initial polymeric hydrogel or ii) attached to the monomeric unit of the initial polymeric hydrogel through a linker. The flow cel...