ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,861, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods, carrier assemblies, and systems for imaging samples for biological or chemical analysis" was invented by Stephen Rawlings (Cambridge, Great Britain), Venkatesh Mysore Nagaraja Rao (Singapore), Beng Keong Ang (Singapore) and Nitin Udpa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method includes positioning a first carrier assembly on a system stage. The carrier assembly includes a support frame having an inner frame edge that defines a window of the support frame. The first carrier assembly includes a first substrate that is positioned ...