US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA, ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE on July 1 for "Apparatus and method of obtaining an image of a sample in motion" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,874, issued on July 1, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego) and ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method of obtaining an image of a sample in motion" was invented by Geraint Evans (Cambridge, Great Britain), Stanley Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Merek Siu (Alameda, Calif.), Shaoping Lu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and John Moon (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is used to generate an analysis image of a moving sample based on one or more exposures. An illumination source illuminates a field of view of a camera for one or more pulses while the sample moves through the field of vie...