Patent 7269518 was granted and assigned to Agilent Technologies on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method in which a chemical array is read on an array reader and the results saved in a memory linked with a performance characteristic of the array reader. Alternatively or additionally results from reading an array and a linked performance characteristic of a reader which performed the reading are retrieved from a memory. Computer program products and apparatus are also provided.