ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,140, issued on May 12, was assigned to Akoya Biosciences Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Multiplexed imaging with nanobody probes" was invented by Yi Zheng (Dover, Mass.), Julia Kennedy-Darling (Redwood City, Calif.) and Peter J. Miller (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods include (a) contacting a biological sample with a composition featuring a plurality of different types of probes, where each type of probe of the plurality of different types of probes includes a detection moiety that selectively binds to a different type of protein target in the sample, a nanobody bound to the detection moiety, and an oligonucleotid...