US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 21 for "Sequencing of nucleic acids via barcoding in discrete entities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,643, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Sequencing of nucleic acids via barcoding in discrete entities" was invented by Adam R. Abate (Daly City, Calif.), John R. Haliburton (San Francisco), Freeman Lan (San Francisco) and Adam R. Sciambi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microfluidic methods for barcoding nucleic acid target molecules to be analyzed, e.g., via nucleic acid sequencing techniques, are provided. Also provided are microfluidic, droplet-based methods of preparing nucleic acid barcodes for use in various barcoding applications. The methods describ...