ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,279, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Augusta SpinCo Corp. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Oligonucleotides associated with antibodies" was invented by Eleen Shum (San Jose, Calif.), Katherine Lazaruk (San Jose, Calif.), Dennis E. Prosen (San Jose, Calif.), Devon Jensen (San Jose, Calif.), David Rosenfeld (San Jose, Calif.), Janice H. Lai (San Jose, Calif.), James Ghadiali (San Jose, Calif.) and Christina Chang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for determining protein expression and gene expression simultaneously and for sample indexing. In some embodiments, an...