US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on June 17 for "Error correction in amplification of samples" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,351, issued on June 17, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Error correction in amplification of samples" was invented by Eleen Shum (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for correcting errors in sample amplification, including the errors occurred in determining the number of targets in samples. In some embodiments, the method comprises: stochastically barcoding a plurality of targets in the samples using oligonucleotides comprising stochastic barcodes to generate stochastically barcoded targets; contacting one or more defined barcoded primers with each...