US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on Nov. 4 for "Compositions and methods for molecular labeling" (California, Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,094, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for molecular labeling" was invented by Michael L. Samuels (Windham, N.H.), Jeffrey Charles Olson (Chelmsford, Mass.), Andrew Watson (Bedford, Mass.), Keith Brown (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Darren R. Link (Lafayette, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each...