ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,050, issued on March 17, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Optical assemblies for machine vision calibration" was invented by Anton Shutov (San Leandro, Calif.) and Denis Pristinski (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly of a machine vision system for calibrating and/or positioning of various motion control modules of an analytical system/tool/instrument having integrated optics and fluidics modules configured for imaging of biological specimens is disclosed. The optical assembly includes one or more light sources configured to generate a first light beam and a second light beam tha...