ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,480, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MGI Tech Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Immersion imaging systems and methods for flowcells" was invented by Paul Lundquist (Oakland, Calif.) and Razvan Chirita (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for immersion imaging of a flowcell. In one example, an imaging system includes liquid ports in leading and trailing positions relative to a scanned imaging objective. The leading liquid port dispenses an immersion liquid into a space between the distal end of the imaging objective and the flowcell's cover, with the trailing liquid port collecting the immersion liquid. I...