ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,721, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BGI SHENZHEN (Guangdong, China).

"Sequencing chip and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Shifeng Li (Guangdong, China), Tengyue Li (Guangdong, China), Yuan Li (Guangdong, China), Zhaohui Wang (Guangdong, China), Xueqin Jiang (Guangdong, China), Jiacheng Chen (Guangdong, China), Aoli Wang (Guangdong, China), Fuxing Huang (Guangdong, China), Xiaogang Song (Guangdong, China), Lingling Peng (Guangdong, China), Handong Li (Guangdong, China) and Wenwei Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a chip matrix, a sequencing chip, and a manufacturing method thereof. ...