US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK on Feb. 24 for "Fluorescence energy transfer-based single molecule/ensemble DNA sequencing by synthesis" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,796, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Fluorescence energy transfer-based single molecule/ensemble DNA sequencing by synthesis" was invented by Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), Shiv Kumar (Belle Mead, N.J.), James J. Russo (New York), Steffen Jockusch (New York), Zengmin Li (Flushing, N.Y.), Xiaoxu Li (New York), Sergey M. Kalachikov (Bronx, N.Y.) and Irina Morozova (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides nucleotide analogues each of which comprises a tag comprising one or more Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) acceptor fl...