ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,049, issued on Nov. 11.
"Methods and kits using nucleic acid encoding and/or label" was invented by Mark S. Chee (Encinitas, Calif.), Kevin L. Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.), Michael Phillip Weiner (San Diego), Lei Shi (San Diego) and Norihito Muranaka (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and Kits for analyzing macromolecules, including peptides, polypeptides, and proteins, employing nucleic acid encoding are disclosed. The sample analysis kits employ nucleic acid encoding and/or nucleic acid recording of a molecular interaction and/or reaction, such as recognition events (e.g., between an antigen and an antibody, between...