ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,418, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"Amplitude modulation for accelerated base calling" was invented by Gavin Parnaby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to systems and methods for nucleic acid sequencing utilizing a single light source and a single detector. The disclosed technology may use the light source to stimulate a fluorescence emission from a polynucleotide and identify a nucleobase in the polynucleotide based on the intensity of the fluorescence emission received by the detector. The disclosed technology may utilize four types of nucleotide an...