US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Oct. 28 for "Immune profiling using small volume blood samples" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,717, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Immune profiling using small volume blood samples" was invented by Matthew W. Thomson (Pasadena, Calif.), Tatyana Dobreva (Pasadena, Calif.), David Brown (Pasadena, Calif.) and Jong Hwee Park (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, systems, devices, kits, and reagents for performing single cell sequencing (e.g., single cell RNA sequencing) from a low volume, capillary blood (or any low volume blood sample which is not obtained from a vein or by venipuncture)."

The patent was filed on July ...