ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,067, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Gel patterned surfaces" was invented by Steven M. Barnard (San Diego), M. Shane Bowen (Encinitas, Calif.), Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo (San Diego), Wayne N. George (Ilford, Great Britain), Andrew A. Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain) and James Tsay (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an array including a solid support having a surface, the surface having a plurality of wells, the wells containing a gel material, the wells being separated from each other by interstitial regions on the surface, the interstitial regions segregating the gel materia...