ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,594, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Primers for immune repertoire profiling" was invented by Devon Jensen (San Jose, Calif.), Katherine Lazaruk (San Jose, Calif.), Dennis Prosen (San Jose, Calif.), Ricelle A. Acob (San Jose, Calif.) and Kai Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for immune repertoire profiling. There are provided, in some embodiments, primer panels enabling the determination of the nucleotide sequence of the complete variable region of nucleic acids encoding mouse B cell receptor (BCR) a...