ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,403, issued on March 11, was assigned to Emerald Cloud Lab Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"System and method for management, execution, and analysis of laboratory experiments" was invented by Alex M. Yoshikawa (South San Francisco, Calif.), Anand V. Sastry (South San Francisco, Calif.), Asuka Ota (South San Francisco, Calif.), Ben C. Kline (South San Francisco, Calif.), Bradley M. Bond (South San Francisco, Calif.), Brian M. Frezza (Redwood City, Calif.), Cameron R. Lamoureux (South San Francisco, Calif.), Catherine L. Hofler (South San Francisco, Calif.), Cheri Y. Li (South San Francisco, Calif.), Courtney E. Webster (Palo Alto, Calif.), Daniel J. Kleinbaum (Redwood City, C...