ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,801, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to AXBIO INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and compositions for nucelic acid sequencing" was invented by Suhua Deng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vladimir Ivanovich Bashkirov (Davis, Calif.), Hui Tian (Cupertino, Calif.) and Igor Constantin Ivanov (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and systems for processing or analyzing a nucleic acid molecule. A method for processing or analyzing a double-stranded nucleic molecule may comprise providing the double-stranded nucleic acid molecule and a double-stranded adapter. The double-stranded adapter m...