ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,238, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time delay integration acquisition for spatial genomics imaging" was invented by Joseph R. Johnson (Redwood City, Calif.), Ang Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jean Marc Fan Chung Tsang Min Ching (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mehdi Vaez-Iravani (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system for capturing spatial-omic images of biological tissue samples may include an imaging chamber configured to secure a biological tissue sample placed in the imaging system; a Time Delay and Integration (TDI) imager comprising at least one scan line; a lig...