US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA on Nov. 4 for "Methods for determining lymphocyte receptor chain pairs" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,318, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, Canada).

"Methods for determining lymphocyte receptor chain pairs" was invented by Carl Lars Genghis Hansen (Vancouver, Canada), Georgia Elizabeth Mewis (Vancouver, Canada), Kevin Albert Heyries (Vancouver, Canada), Michael Andrew Vaninsberghe (Vancouver, Canada), Daniel Jay Da Costa (Pitt Meadows, Canada) and Marketa Ricicova (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are high-throughput sequencing methods to study the diversity and functionality of lymphocyte receptor chains and pairing of the same. Specifically, the methods ...