US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 15 for "Equalizer-based intensity correction for base calling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,525, issued on July 15, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Equalizer-based intensity correction for base calling" was invented by Eric Jon Ojard (San Francisco), Rami Mehio (San Diego), Gavin Derek Parnaby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Nitin Udpa (San Diego) and John S. Vieceli (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to equalizer-based intensity correction for base calling. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to accessing an image whose pixels depict intensity emissions from a target cluster and intensity emissions from additional adjacent clusters, selecting a lookup table t...