US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for determining nucleic acids" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,546, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for determining nucleic acids" was invented by Xiaowei Zhuang (Cambridge, Mass.), Kok-Hao Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Alistair Boettiger (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeffrey R. Moffitt (Cambridge, Mass.) and Siyuan Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for imaging or determining nucleic acids, for instance, within cells. In some embodiments, the transcriptome of a cell may be determined. Certain embodiments are directed to determining nucleic acids...