US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Oct. 7 for "Nucleic acid sequencing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,371, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Nucleic acid sequencing system" was invented by Robert C. Kain (San Diego), David L. Heiner (San Diego), Chanfeng Zhao (San Diego) and Kevin Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sequencing nucleic acid comprising a plurality of stations and a system control. The system control configured to direct the first substrate to progress and retrogress between the first processing station and the imaging station, direct the second substrate to progress and retrogress between the second processing station and the imaging station, and direct a ...