US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Oct. 21 for "Intelligent sample tilt adjustment with zones having variable size" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,530, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Intelligent sample tilt adjustment with zones having variable size" was invented by Lara Zlokapa (San Diego), Jeffrey Gau (San Mateo, Calif.) and Matthew Hage (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the disclosure relate to a method including: obtaining surface profile data of a swath of a sample, the swath divided into multiple tiles, and the surface profile data including surface profile data for each tile; calculating, based at least on a threshold residual and the surface profile data of the swath, one or more zones of the swath that inc...