US Patent Issued to SRI International on Aug. 12 for "Mass spectrometry distinguishable synthetic compounds, libraries, and methods thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,822, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Mass spectrometry distinguishable synthetic compounds, libraries, and methods thereof" was invented by Peter Madrid (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan Collins (San Mateo, Calif.), Michal Avital-Shmilovici (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pauline Bourbon (San Francisco) and Thomas Shaler (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to polymer beads and uses thereof, including forming libraries of compounds for screening and assay purposes. An example method includes using logic circuitry to: select a plur...