US Patent Issued to Quantum-Si on Dec. 30 for "Optical system and assay chip for probing, detecting and analyzing molecules" (Connecticut, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,477, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Quantum-Si Inc. (Branford, Conn.).

"Optical system and assay chip for probing, detecting and analyzing molecules" was invented by Jonathan M. Rothberg (Miami Beach, Fla.), Ali Kabiri (Guilford, Conn.), Jason W. Sickler (Arlington, Mass.), Brett J. Gyarfas (Aptos, Calif.), Jeremy Lackey (Foster City, Calif.), Gerard Schmid (Guilford, Conn.), Paul E. Glenn (Wellesley, Mass.), Lawrence C. West (Las Vegas), Benjamin Cipriany (Branford, Conn.) and Keith G. Fife (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing...