ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,704, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"Apparatus and methods for transmitting light" was invented by Steven Boege (San Mateo, Calif.), Simon Prince (Carlsbad, Calif.), Peter Newman (San Diego), Matthew Hage (San Diego) and Geraint Evans (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for imaging includes an imaging system formed of a movable objective stage proximal to a sample and positioned for providing an excitation beam onto and for capturing an emission from the sample. The movable objective stage includes an optical lens apparatus and a turn reflector optically coup...