US Patent Issued to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington on Sept. 23 for "Cell-stored barcoded deep mutational scanning libraries and uses of the same" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,626, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Seattle) and University of Washington (Seattle).

"Cell-stored barcoded deep mutational scanning libraries and uses of the same" was invented by Jesse Bloom (Seattle), Adam S. Dingens (Seattle), Katharine H. D. Crawford (Seattle) and Caelan Radford (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cell-stored barcoded viral protein deep mutational scanning libraries are described. The libraries can be used to map resistance mutations to therapeutic treatments. The libraries can be used to predict viruses that become resistant to therapeutic compounds and/or may more easily...