ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,939, issued on March 25, was assigned to CELLARITY INC. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for predicting compounds associated with transcriptional signatures" was invented by Juan Corchado Garcia (Cambridge, Mass.), Ragy Haddad (Cambridge, Mass.) and Diogo Camacho (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of associating a test compound with a reference compound are provided. A fingerprint of a chemical structure of the test compound is obtained. Abundance values for a set of cellular constituents are also obtained, from one or more reference assays, across a plurality of cells that have been exposed ...