ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,632, issued on June 30, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Devices and compositions for use in luminescent imaging of multiple sites within a pixel, and methods of using the same" was invented by Juraj Topolancik (Redwood City, Calif.) and Cheng Frank Zhong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for luminescent imaging includes an array of imaging pixels, a photonic structure over the array of imaging pixels, and an array of features over the photonic structure. A first feature of the array of features is over a first pixel of the array of imaging pixels, and a second feature of the array of features is over ...