US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on June 2 for "Two-phase flushing systems and methods" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,095, issued on June 2, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Two-phase flushing systems and methods" was invented by Nicholas Watson (San Diego), Wesley A. Cox-Muranami (Middleton, Wis.), Cyril Delattre (Lyons, France) and Minsoung Rhee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two-phase flushing systems and methods. An example method includes moving a valve to a first position to fluidly connect a first reagent reservoir containing a first reagent to a flow cell and flowing the first reagent from the first reagent reservoir to the flow cell to perform a biochemical reaction. The method includes moving the valve to a second posi...