ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,334, issued on March 25, was assigned to CellMosaic Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Branched sugar alcohol-based compounds, and compositions and methods thereof" was invented by Yumei Huang (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel sugar alcohol-based dendrimer-like molecules. These sugar alcohol-based molecules have multiple functional groups that can be used to label, conjugate, and immobilize large amounts of molecules or multiple types of molecules of interest for diagnostic, therapeutic, and research usage. Methods of synthesizing these sugar alcohol-based dendrimer-like molecules and conjugates are a...