ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,033, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston), THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"High-resolution spatial macromolecule abundance assessment" was invented by Evan Macosko (Boston), Fei Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Sam Rodriques (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert Stickels (Cambridge, Mass.) and Caroline Anne Martin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for assessing relative macromolecule abundance (for example, RNA expression levels) in a spatially-d...