Patent 8465922 was granted and assigned to Pacific Biosciences on June, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems for monitoring reactions by observing signals deriving from those reactions, using signal processing that allows differentiation between signals that are otherwise optically overlapping by conventional detection methods. Centroid determination is used to identify signal sources that are presenting confounding overlapping signals due to their physical proximity, and/or to identify discrete signals from different reaction centers.