US Patent Issued to Bionano Genomics on April 21 for "Top hat illumination biological sample imaging devices, and methods of using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,563, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bionano Genomics Inc. (San Diego).

"Top hat illumination biological sample imaging devices, and methods of using the same" was invented by Brian Catanzaro (San Diego) and Sidra Haiy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Top Hat illumination biological sample imaging devices are provided. Aspects of the imaging devices include: a laser illumination source configured to produce a collimated gaussian beam having a specific diameter; a beam converter configured to convert the collimated gaussian beam into a collimated, uniform irradiance over a region in space; a sample interrogation location...