Illumina Assigned Patent

Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (12201985) developed by Siu; Merek, Alameda, CA, Agah; Ali, Menlo Park, CA, Hong; Stanley, Palo Alto, CA, Khurana; Tarun, Fremont, CA, Karunakaran; Aathavan, Berkeley, CA, Ciesla; Craig, Mountain View, CA, and Kia; Amirali, San Mateo, CA, for “system and method for storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Devices, systems, and methods for non-volatile storage include a well activation device operable to modify one or more wells from a plurality of wells of a flow cell to provide a set of readable wells. Readable wells are configured to allow exposure of a well to substances from nucleotide sequencing fluids, and prevent exposure to other substances and fluids, such as nucleotide synthesizing fluids. The well activation device may also modify wells to provide a set of writeable wells. This set of wells is configured to allow exposure to the nucleotide synthesizing fluids and substances; and prevent exposure to the nucleotide sequencing fluids and substances. There may also be provisions made for risk mitigation for data errors such as generating commands to write specified data to a nucleotide sequence associated with a particular location in a storage device, reading the nucleotide sequence and performing a comparison.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-01-31 (18/103625).