ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,976, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Flow cells and methods for making the same" was invented by Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego), Anthony Flannery (San Diego), Sahngki Hong (San Diego), Brinda Kodira Cariappa (San Diego), Lewis J. Kraft (San Diego) and Brian D. Mather (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal film is formed over a resin layer including a plurality of multi-depth depressions (MDP) separated by interstitial regions, each MDP including a deep portion and an adjacent shallow portion. A sacrificial layer is formed over the metal film. The sacrificial layer and metal film are sequential...