ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,948, issued on July 28, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Bioinformatics systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing secondary and/or tertiary processing" was invented by Mark David Hahm (San Diego), Jacobus de Beer (San Diego), Varun Jain (San Diego), Rami Mehio (San Diego), Eric Ojard (San Diego), Michael Ruehle (Fort Worth, Texas), Amnon Ptashek (San Diego), Severine Catreux (San Diego) and Arun Visvanath (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer programs for analyzing genetic sequence data is disclosed. In one aspect, the system can include one or more of a first integrated circuit, w...