ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,931, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Flow cells" was invented by Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego), Brian D. Mather (San Diego), Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo (Encinitas, Calif.), Justin Fullerton (San Diego), Ludovic Vincent (San Diego), Lewis J. Kraft (San Diego), Sahngki Hong (San Diego), Boyan Boyanov (San Diego), M. Shane Bowen (Encinitas, Calif.), Sang Park (San Diego), Wayne N. George (Ilford, Great Britain), Andrew A. Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Dajun Yuan (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a flow cell includes...