ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,399, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cellanome Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Methods for imaging and analyzing a cell in a compartment of a fluidic device" was invented by Tarun Kumar Khurana (Fremont, Calif.), Ali Agah (Redwood City, Calif.), Yir-Shyuan Wu (Albany, Calif.) and Filiz Gorpe Yasar (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for analyzing biological samples. The methods can include forming a compartment that at least partially encloses a cell. The methods can further include imaging the cell. The methods can also include analyzing a nucleic acid from the cell, for ex...