ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,607, issued on March 17, was assigned to Quantum-Si Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"High intensity labeled reactant compositions and methods for sequencing" was invented by Jonathan M. Rothberg (Miami Beach, Fla.), Jeremy Lackey (Foster City, Calif.), Brian Reed (Madison, Conn.), Xinghua Shi (Madison, Conn.), Haidong Huang (Madison, Conn.) and David Dodd (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions useful for the detection of single molecules in a sample are provided. In some aspects, the disclosure provides a nucleotide connected to a nucleic acid comprising a FRET label comprising at least three luminescent molecules. In ...