ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,714, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Jitter correction image analysis" was invented by Robert Ezra Langlois (San Diego), Hongji Ren (San Diego), Mohamed Khaled Mohamed Geunady (San Diego), John S. Vieceli (Encinitas, Calif.), Gregory Holst (San Diego) and Paul Sangiorgio (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein. For instance, a detection apparatus may comprise memory and at least one processor. The detection apparatus may be configured to obtain an image comprising at least one feature and a plurality of fiducials. The plurality of fiducials may be...