US Patent Issued to Nautilus Subsidiary on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for surface structuring" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,498, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Nautilus Subsidiary Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for surface structuring" was invented by Pierre Indermuhle (Berkeley, Calif.) and Christina E. Inman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the formation of single-analyte arrays are described. Array sites are formed via the patterning of surface-linked organic layers by electromagnetic radiation. Each array site may be modified after patterning to produce a chemistry at the array site that facilitates the controlled deposition of a single analyte at the array site."

The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 20...