ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,815, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"Spot error handling for focus tracking" was invented by Yu Chen (Irvine, Calif.), Gregory Holst (San Diego), John Earney (San Diego), Patrick Wen (Encinitas, Calif.), Chia-Hsi Liu (San Diego) and Daeyong Sim (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the disclosure relate to an imaging system including one or more image sensors and a Z-stage. The imaging system is configured to perform operations including: capturing, using the one or more image sensors, a first image of a first pair of spots projected at a first sample location of a sample; de...