ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,673, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Encodia Inc. (San Diego).
"Methods for barcoding macromolecules in individual cells" was invented by Mark S. Chee (Encinitas, Calif.), Haibiao Gong (San Diego) and Kevin L. Gunderson (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and kits for generating single cell barcodes and imparting them to the constituent molecules within a single cell. Additionally, methods to overlay sample barcode and spatial barcode information onto the single cell barcodes are also described. Generation of single cell barcodes is achieved by labeling the genomic DNA of a...