US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on April 21 for "Scanning system and method for imaging and sequencing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,564, issued on April 21, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Scanning system and method for imaging and sequencing" was invented by Mark F. Oldham (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Eric S. Nordman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hongye Sun (Belmont, Calif.) and Steven Boege (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning detection system is provided wherein emissions from locations in a flow cell are detected. In some embodiments, the system can comprise an excitation source, a photocleavage source, and modulating optics configured to cause an excitation beam generated by the excitation source to irradiate a first ...