ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,869, issued on May 19, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and Bruker Spatial Biology Inc. (Seattle).

"Simultaneous quantification of gene expression in a user-defined region of a cross-sectioned tissue" was invented by Joseph M. Beechem (Eugene, Ore.), Charles Warren (Bremerton, Wash.), Chris Merritt (Seattle), Jaemyeong Jung (Bellevue, Wash.), Dwayne L. Dunaway (Seattle), Scott Crowder (Seattle), Kristina Sorg (Seattle) and Gordon B. Mills (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to, among other things, probes, compositions, methods, and kits for simultaneous,...