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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2018
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Danilo Condello, San Diego, CA (US);
Simon Prince, San Diego, CA (US);
David Hargis, San Diego, CA (US);
John O'Shaughnessy, San Diego, CA (US);
William Butterfield, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey Bendick, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Clarke Newman, San Diego, CA (US);
ILLUMINA, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods disclosed herein include an optical blocking structure that may include a frame defining an aperture, first and second elongate structural members each comprising first and second ends such that the first and second elongate structural members may be connected at their first ends to opposite sides of the aperture, and further such that the first and second elongate structural members may extend from the frame parallel to and in the same direction as one another; and an optically opaque blocking member positioned to extend between the respective second ends of the first and second blocking members.