US Patent Issued to Illumina on Feb. 10 for "Nucleic acid capture, concentration, and purification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,756, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Nucleic acid capture, concentration, and purification" was invented by Sean M. Ramirez (San Diego), Anmiv Prabhu (San Diego), Rigo Pantoja (San Diego) and Michelle Higgins (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a kit includes a flow cell assembly. The flow cell assembly includes a reaction chamber, a temperature controlled flow channel in selective fluid communication with an inlet of the reaction chamber, and a filter positioned in the temperature controlled flow channel. The reaction chamber includes depressions separated by interstitial reg...