ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,053, issued on June 23, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Genomic infrastructure for on-site or cloud-based DNA and RNA processing and analysis" was invented by Pieter van Rooyen (San Diego), Robert J. McMillen (San Diego), Michael Ruehle (San Diego) and Rami Mehio (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for executing a sequence analysis pipeline on genetic sequence data includes a integrated circuit formed of a set of hardwired digital logic circuits that are interconnected by physical electrical interconnects. One of the physical electrical interconnects forms an input to the integrated ci...