US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 29 for "Sample indexing for single cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,729, issued on July 29, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Sample indexing for single cells" was invented by Christina Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Christina Fan (San Jose, Calif.) and Eleen Shum (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for sample identification. A sample indexing composition can comprise, for example, a protein binding reagent associated with a sample indexing oligonucleotide. Different sample indexing compositions can include sample indexing oligonucleotides with different sequences. Sample origin of cells can be i...