US Patent Issued to Illumina on May 12 for "Integrated optoelectronic read head and fluidic cartridge useful for nucleic acid sequencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,224, issued on May 12, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Integrated optoelectronic read head and fluidic cartridge useful for nucleic acid sequencing" was invented by Dale Buermann (San Diego), John A. Moon (San Diego), Bryan Crane (San Diego), Mark Wang (San Diego), Stanley S. Hong (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jason Harris (San Ramon, Calif.), Matthew Hage (San Diego) and Mark J. Nibbe (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection apparatus having a read head including a plurality of microfluorometers positioned to simultaneously acquire a plurality of the wide-field images in a common plane; and (b) a translation stage co...