ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,547, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"High throughput multiomics sample analysis" was invented by Christina Fan (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and Elisabeth Marie Walczak (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for sample analysis. Nucleic acid fragments comprising a capture sequence (or a complement thereof) can be generated from double-stranded genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (gDNA), barcoded to generate single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) fragments, and sequenced. Information relating to the gDNA (e.g., genome, chroma...