US Patent Issued to Ultima Genomics on July 14 for "Methods and systems for substrate functionalization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,822, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for substrate functionalization" was invented by William Schulkins (Campbell, Calif.), Angela Stern (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Florian Oberstrass (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for functionalizing a substrate. The method may comprise providing a substrate surface, wherein the substrate surface comprises a plurality of individually addressable locations, and exposing the substrate surface to a dose of organosilane vapor to generate a plurality of organosilane-functionalized locat...