US Patent Issued to AFFYMETRIX on June 3 for "Nucleic acid analysis by joining barcoded polynucleotide probes" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,957, issued on June 3, was assigned to AFFYMETRIX INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Nucleic acid analysis by joining barcoded polynucleotide probes" was invented by Heather Koshinsky (El Cerrito, Calif.), John D. Curry (Concord, Calif.), Robert O'Callahan (Spring, Texas), Adam Mccoy (Davis, Calif.), Daniel Fitzpatrick (Santa Clara, Calif.), Philip H. Dickinson (Cupertino, Calif.) and Anthony C. Schweitzer (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions, methods and kits for determining the presence, absence, amount, copy number, or other characteristics of one or more polynucleotide sequences in two or more sam...