US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Sept. 9 for "Highly multiplexed phylogenetic imaging of microbial communities" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,425, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Highly multiplexed phylogenetic imaging of microbial communities" was invented by Hao Shi (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Iwijn De Vlaminck (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Micron scale biogeography is a major driver of physiology and ecology of complex microbial biofilm communities, which remains elusive largely due to the lack of tools for spatially resolved phylogenetic mapping. This disclosure provides methods, computer-readable storage devices and kits that allow highly multiplexed and spatially resolved imaging of microbial community spatial organizatio...