US Patent Issued to Illumina on Dec. 30 for "Multilayer fluidic devices and methods for their fabrication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,587, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Multilayer fluidic devices and methods for their fabrication" was invented by Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego), John A. Moon (San Diego) and Bala Murali Venkatesan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidic device including an inorganic solid support attached to an organic solid support by a bonding layer, wherein the inorganic solid support has a rigid structure and wherein the bonding layer includes a material that absorbs radiation at a wavelength that is transmitted by the inorganic solid support or the organic solid support; and a channel formed by the ino...