US Patent Issued to Illumina on Aug. 25 for "Sensor system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,230, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Sensor system" was invented by Tracy Helen Fung (San Mateo, Calif.) and Hai Quang Tran (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an image sensor structure and a flow cell. The image sensor structure includes an image layer disposed over a base substrate. A device stack is disposed over the image layer. A bond pad is disposed in the device stack. A passivation stack is disposed over the device stack and the bond pad. An array of nanowells is disposed in a top layer of the passivation stack. A through-silicon via (TSV) is in electrical contact with th...