ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,495, issued on May 13, was assigned to DName-iT NV (Heverlee, Belgium).
"Methods for identification of samples" was invented by Harry Cuppens (Brussels).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes methods, carriers, and vectors relating to nucleic acids for labelling an item, wherein each carrier comprises at least 2 nucleotide barcode nucleic acids, other than sample nucleic acid, for labelling, wherein each nucleotide barcode nucleic acid comprises a different minimal nucleotide barcode sequence with a length of at least 4 nucleotides, where at least two of said different nucleotide barcode nucleic acids have a mi...