US Patent Issued to Illumina on April 29 for "Apparatus and methods for controlling heating of an objective in a linescanning sequencing system to improve resolution" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,490, issued on April 29, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus and methods for controlling heating of an objective in a linescanning sequencing system to improve resolution" was invented by Danilo Condello (New York), Dakota Watson (San Diego), Andrew Carson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Vincent Hsieh (San Diego), Steven Boege (San Mateo, Calif.), Changqin Ding (Foster City, Calif.) and Stanley Hong (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for controlling heating of an objective in a linescanning sequencing system to improve resolution are disclosed. In accordance with a first implementation, an a...