US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Dec. 23 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses to image a sample for biological or chemical analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,669, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses to image a sample for biological or chemical analysis" was invented by Erik Williamson (San Diego), Bryan Crane (San Diego), Patrick Leung (San Bruno, Calif.), Drew Verkade (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Mark T. Reed (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic de...