US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 4 for "Methods utilizing single cell genetic data for cell population analysis and applications thereof" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,260, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods utilizing single cell genetic data for cell population analysis and applications thereof" was invented by Aaron M. Newman (San Mateo, Calif.), Gunsagar S. Gulati (Roxbury, Mass.), Michael F. Clarke (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Shaheen Shabbir Sikandar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes to infer stemness, cell lineage, and/or differentiation status are provided. In some instances, single cell RNA sequencing is used to infer a cell's stemness, cell lineage, and/or differentiation status....