US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Feb. 24 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses to image a sample for biological or chemical analysis" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,687, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses to image a sample for biological or chemical analysis" was invented by Erik Williamson (San Diego), Bryan Crane (San Diego), Patrick Leung (San Bruno, Calif.), Drew Verkade (Carlsbad, Calif.), Mark T. Reed (Menlo Park, Calif.), Stanley S. Hong (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mark Pratt (San Mateo, Calif.), Jason Harris (San Rafael, Calif.), Alexander P. Kindwall (Pleasanton, Calif.), Andrew James Carson (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jason Bryant (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fl...