ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,039, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to WellSIM Biomedical Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Spatially barcoded microarray" was invented by Yuchao Chen (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a microarray comprising a plurality of probes. Each probe comprises a first oligonucleotide and a second oligonucleotide. The location of each probe on the microarray can be determined by the length of the first oligonucleotide and the length of the second oligonucleotide, thus providing a spatially barcoded microarray. Also provided are the methods of producing such spatially barcoded microarray. ...