US Patent Issued to Illumina on March 24 for "Flow cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,035, issued on March 24, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Flow cells" was invented by Raymond Campos (San Diego), Brian D. Mather (San Diego) and Sean M. Ramirez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow cell includes a substrate and a copolymer coating. The copolymer coating includes copolymer chains, each having recurring units of formula (I): and formula (II):. In formula (I), R1 is -H, a halogen, an alkyl, an alkoxy, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, a cycloalkyl, an aryl, a heteroaryl, a heterocycle, or optionally substituted variants thereof; R2 is an azido; each (CH2)p can be optionally substituted; and p is an intege...