Patent 7993895 was granted and assigned to Pacific Biosciences on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Compositions, devices, systems and methods for reducing and/or preventing photodamage of one or more reactants in illuminated analytical reactions by one or more of incorporating photodamage mitigating agents within the reaction mixture and/or interrogating different observation regions of the reaction mixture for a period that is less than a photodamage threshold period.