ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,458, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego) and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Flow cells" was invented by Hayden Black (San Diego) and Xavier von Hatten (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes introducing a first fluid to a flow channel of a flow cell including a working electrode having a surface that is at least partially exposed to the flow channel, the surface being unmodified or modified with a first member of a transition metal complex binding pair, whereby a linking moiety of a complex present in the first fluid chemically attaches the c...