US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Feb. 10 for "Immobilization-based systems and methods for genetic analysis and other applications" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,953, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Immobilization-based systems and methods for genetic analysis and other applications" was invented by David A. Weitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Huidan Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.) and John Heyman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to microfluidics and labeled nucleic acids. Certain aspects are generally directed to containing cells in gels, such as agarose gels, and determining nucleic acids within the cells, e.g., while contained within the gels. The nucleic acids may be, for example, genom...