ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,229, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Phasing correction" was invented by Robert Langlois (San Diego) and Paul Belitz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory efficient methods determine corrected color values from image data acquired by a nucleic acid sequencer during a base calling cycle. Such methods may: (a) obtain an image of a substrate (e.g., a portion of a flow cell) including a plurality of sites where nucleic acid bases are read; (b) measure color values of the plurality of sites from the image of the substrate; (c) store the color values in a processor buffer of the sequencer's one or ...