ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,840, issued on June 30, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Polymer coatings" was invented by Wayne N. George (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew A. Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Daniel Bratton (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hongji Ren (San Diego) and Ryan Christopher Smith (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to polymer coatings covalently attached to the surface of a substrate and the preparation of the polymer coatings, such as poly(N-(5-azidoacetamidylpentyl)acrylamide-co-acrylamide) (PAZAM), in the formation and manipulation of substrates, such as molecular arrays and flow cells. The p...