ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,670, issued on May 20, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Analyzing image data from nucleic acid sequencing" was invented by Francisco Jose Garcia (San Diego), Klaus Maisinger (Essex, Great Britain), Stephen Tanner (San Diego), John A. Moon (San Diego), Tobias Mann (San Diego), Michael Lawrence Parkinson (Reyrieux, France), Anthony James Cox (Essex, Great Britain) and Haifang H. Ge (Essex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for analysis of image data generated from various reference points. Particularly, the methods and systems provided are useful for real time analysis of image and sequence dat...