ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,730, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Detectable nucleotide analogues" was invented by Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), Xiaoxu Li (New York), Xin Chen (New York), Zengmin Li (Flushing, N.Y.), Shiv Kumar (Belle Meade, N.J.), Shundi Shi (Ozone Park, N.Y.), Cheng Guo (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jianyi Ren (New York), Min-Kang Hsieh (New York), Minchen Chien (Tenafly, N.J.), Chuanjuan Tao (Fort Lee, N.J.), Ece Erturk (New York), Sergey Kalachikov (Bronx, N.Y.) and James J. Russo (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds, compos...