US Patent Issued to Slingshot Biosciences on April 15 for "Compositions and methods for passive optical barcoding for multiplexed assays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,659, issued on April 15, was assigned to Slingshot Biosciences Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for passive optical barcoding for multiplexed assays" was invented by Jeffrey Kim (Berkeley, Calif.), Anh Tuan Nguyen (San Francisco) and Brandon Miller (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions comprising multiple hydrogel particles having substantially the same diameter, but with each subgrouping of particles from the multiple hydrogel particles having different associated values for one or more passive optical properties that can be deconvoluted using cytometric instrumentation. Each hydrogel partic...