US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on April 7 for "Methods, systems, and computer readable media for making base calls in nucleic acid sequencing" (California, Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,094, issued on April 7, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for making base calls in nucleic acid sequencing" was invented by Marcin Sikora (Burlingame, Calif.), Melville Davey (Westbrook, Conn.), Christian Koller (San Francisco), Simon Cawley (Oakland, Calif.), Alan Williams (Albany, Calif.) and David Kulp (Shelburne Falls, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for nucleic acid sequencing includes receiving a plurality of observed or measured signals indicative of a parameter observed or measured for a plurality of defined spaces; determining, for at leas...