US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on April 29 for "Efficient combinatorial bead barcoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,621, issued on April 29, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Efficient combinatorial bead barcoding" was invented by Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame (Pasadena, Calif.), Jase Gehring (Pasadena, Calif.), Akshay Tambe (Hayward, Calif.), Lior S. Pachter (Pasadena, Calif.) and Taleen Dilanyan (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include methods, compositions, and systems for extending particle-associated oligonucleotides. In some embodiments, the methods of extending particle-associated oligonucleotides enable efficient methods of preparing a library of barcoded beads. It is also p...