ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,090, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"Contiguity particle formation and methods of use" was invented by Frank J. Steemers (Encinitas, Calif.), Ramesh Ramji (San Diego), Steven Norberg (La Mesa, Calif.), Lena Christiansen (San Diego), Dmitry K. Pokholok (San Diego) and Fan Zhang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems, methods, and compositions provided herein relate to hollow beads encapsulating single cells. Some embodiments include performing multiple co-assays on a single cell encapsulated within a hollow bead, including nucleic acid sequencing, preparing nucleic acid librarie...