ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,738, issued on May 6, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago) and EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Methods and/or use of oligonucleotide conjugates for assays and flow cytometry detections" was invented by David A. Schwartz (Encinitas, Calif.), Jimmy Williams (Santee, Calif.), Xinfang Zhao (San Diego), Chunfang Zhao (San Diego), William B. Busa (Bahama, N.C.), Stephen J. Kron (Oak Park, Ill.) and Amy Catherine Flor (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to methods and/or uses of oligonucleotide conjugates for assays and flow cytometry detections and related systems and/or kits....