US Patent Issued to Pacific Biosciences of California on Jan. 27 for "Highly multiplexed nucleic acid sequencing systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,420, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Highly multiplexed nucleic acid sequencing systems" was invented by Alexey Kuritsyn (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Mcdonald (Milpitas, Calif.), Aaron Rulison (Los Altos, Calif.) and Annette Grot (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are highly multiplexed optical analytical systems for improved nucleic acid sequencing. The systems include a plurality of highly multiplexed optical chips, at least one optical source, and a plurality of optical delivery devices for illuminating an array of nanoscale rection regions...