US Patent Issued to Element Biosciences on Feb. 3 for "Spatially resolved surface capture of nucleic acids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,350, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Element Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Spatially resolved surface capture of nucleic acids" was invented by Michael Previte (San Diego) and Shawn Levy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions, apparatuses and methods for capturing on a support nucleic acids from cellular samples, preparing library molecules on the support, amplifying the library molecules on the support to generate nucleic acid template molecules, and analyzing the immobilized nucleic acid template molecules including detecting and/or sequencing the immobilized nucleic acid template m...