ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,010, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Integrated target waveguide devices and systems for optical coupling" was invented by Shang Wang (San Carlos, Calif.), Mathieu Foquet (Newark, Calif.), Paul Lundquist (San Francisco), Aaron Rulison (Los Altos, Calif.), Mark McDonald (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ariel Herrmann (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated target waveguide devices and optical analytical systems comprising such devices are provided. The target devices include an optical coupler that is optically coupled to an integrated waveguide and that is configur...