ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,319, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Digital Biology Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).
"Tissue spatial omics" was invented by Jocelyn Kishi (Watertown, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions, kits, and methods for collection, integration, and analysis of spatially based information from tissues at the cellular or subcellular level. Layers of information include, without limitation, gene expression, morphology, nucleic acids, and proteins. In some workflows, light-based technologies are incorporated for selective spatial barcoding of regions. In further steps, such barcoded tags are optionally analyzed by high t...