ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,401, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for analyzing mixed cell populations" was invented by Aaron M. Newman (San Mateo, Calif.) and Arash Ash Alizadeh (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for analyzing a mixed population of cells. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for digital cytometry of a biological sample, digital analysis of a biological sample, digital purification of a biological sample, evaluation of a disease in an individu...