US Patent Issued to Illumina on Oct. 27 for "Flow cells and methods for making the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,695, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Flow cells and methods for making the same" was invented by Jeffrey S. Fisher (San Diego), Anthony Flannery (San Diego), Sahngki Hong (San Diego), Brinda Kodira Cariappa (San Diego) and Lewis J. Kraft (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a flow cell includes a substrate and a reaction area defined in or over the substrate. The reaction area includes two angularly offset and non-perpendicular surfaces relative to a planar surface of the substrate, a polymeric hydrogel positioned over at least a portion of each of the two angularly offset and non-per...