ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,298, issued on March 31, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Hardware execution and acceleration of artificial intelligence-based base caller" was invented by Gavin Derek Parnaby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Mark David Hahm (Hartland, Wis.), Andrew Christopher Du Preez (Poway, Calif.), Jason Edward Cosky (San Diego), John S. Vieceli (Encinitas, Calif.), Andrew Dodge Heiberg (San Diego) and Gery Vessere (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for analysis of base call sensor output has memory accessible by the runtime program storing tile data including sensor data for a tile from sensing cycles of a base calling...