ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,801, issued on July 22, was assigned to Singular Genomics Systems Inc. (San Diego).

"Silicon containing detectable compounds and uses thereof" was invented by Megha Cila (San Diego), Ronald Graham (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Rodrigo Rodriguez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, inter alia, are silicon containing detectable compounds and methods of use thereof. In an aspect is provided a monovalent nucleotide or monovalent nucleoside covalently bound to a monovalent form of a compound described herein (e.g., wherein the R13 moiety of a compound described herein has reacted with a bioconjugate reactive group to form ...