US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on June 17 for "On-slide staining by primer extension" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,344, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"On-slide staining by primer extension" was invented by Nikolay Samusik (Mountain View, Calif.), Garry P. Nolan (Redwood City, Calif.), Yury Goltsev (Stanford, Calif.) and David Robert McIlwain (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing planar sample is provided. In some cases the method comprises: (a) labelling the planar sample with a capture agent that is linked to a nucleic acid, wherein the capture agent specifically binds to complementary sites in the planar sample; (b) reading...