ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,332, issued on May 27, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).
"Multiple beads per droplet resolution" was invented by Ronald Lebofsky (Kensington, Calif.) and Nicholas Heredia (Mountain House, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of generating a nucleic acid signature for identifying particles associated in a partition are provided. In one aspect, the method comprises: partitioning a sample into a plurality of partitions comprising a particle comprising a solid support surface, the solid support surface having a plurality of oligonucleotide primers conjugated thereon, wherein the oligonucleotide primer...