US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 22 for "Intensity extraction for feature values in base calling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,263, issued on July 22, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Intensity extraction for feature values in base calling" was invented by Abde Ali Hunaid Kagalwalla (San Diego), Eric Jon Ojard (San Francisco), Rami Mehio (San Diego), Gavin Derek Parnaby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Nitin Udpa (San Diego), Bo Lu (San Diego) and John S. Vieceli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed extracts intensities from sequencing images for base calling target clusters and attenuates spatial crosstalk from neighboring clusters. The technology disclosed accesses a particular section from a plurality of sections of an ima...