ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,809, issued on April 15, was assigned to BGI SHENZHEN (Shenzhen, China).

"Super-resolution imaging system and method, and nucleic acid sequencing imaging system and method" was invented by Jielei Ni (Shenzhen, China), Ming Ni (Shenzhen, China), Fan Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Zeyu Su (Shenzhen, China), Ke Ji (Shenzhen, China), Dong Wei (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhe Shen (Shenzhen, China), Yuanqing Liang (Shenzhen, China), Mei Li (Shenzhen, China) and Xun Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a super-resolution imaging system (1, 41, 51), a super-resolution imaging method, a biological sample identification system (...