Illumina Assigned Patent

Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,282,588) developed by Ciesla, Craig, Mountain View, CA, Agah, Ali, Menlo Park, CA, Hong, Stanley, Palo Alto, CA, Khurana, Tarun, Freemont, CA, Karunakaran, Aathavan, Berkeley, CA, Emadi, Arvin, San Jose, CA, and Siu, Merek, Alameda, CA, for “storage device, system, and method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system writes input data to a storage device as machine-written polynucleotides, and reads machine written polynucleotides from the storage device as output data. The storage device includes a flow cell including a plurality of storage wells in which machine written polynucleotides may be stored. The storage device may include a set of electrodes corresponding to the storage wells that allow for selective interactions with wells across the surface of a flow cell. Operation of the storage device may include receiving a read request associated with a particular location in the storage device, creating a copy of a nucleotide sequence located at the particular location in the storage device, transferring the copy of the nucleotide sequence to a read location, and reading the copy of the nucleotide sequence at the read location.”

The patent application was filed on May 26, 2020 (17/254,459).