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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2024
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey Gau, San Mateo, CA (US);
Joseph Pinto, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Anindita Dutta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Geraint Evans, Cambridge, GB;
Yina Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon Prince, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Stanley Hong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for extending a depth of field of a nucleic acid sequencer may comprise optimization steps which are repeated one or more times, in which a result of passing light through an objective lens and a mask is compared with an ideal result, and any discrepancy is used to update the mask. Such a mask may be incorporated into a nucleic acid sequencer which adds fluorescent tags to nucleic acid sites and then detect light emitted from the fluorescent tags, thereby extending the sequencer's depth of field.