ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,677, issued on March 3, was assigned to QINGDAO MGI TECH Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Single-channel sequencing method based on self-luminescence" was invented by Sha Liao (Shenzhen, China), Xi Chen (Shenzhen, China), Ao Chen (Shenzhen, China), Wenwei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Chongjun Xu (Shenzhen, China), Hongmin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jie Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Defeng Fu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a sequencing method based on a single fluorescent dye, in which a self-luminescence signal is used to distinguish the sequential incorporation of different nucleotides, thereby reali...