ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,788, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Multiple beads per droplet resolution" was invented by Ronald Lebofsky (Kensington, Calif.), Zachary Burkett (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Man Cheng (Danville, Calif.), Meiye Wu (Tracy, Calif.), Pranav Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Duc Do (San Jose, Calif.) and Arkadiusz Bibillo (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for detecting the presence of multiple barcoded solid supports in partitions, the method comprising providing a plurality of partitions wherein at least some partitions comprises multiple solid supports, where e...