ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,963, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CZ Biohub SF LLC (San Francisco), The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Methods and compositions related to lanthanide-encoded microbeads" was invented by Yinnian Feng (Stanford, Calif.), Adam K. White (Stanford, Calif.), Jamin B. Hein (Stanford, Calif.) and Polly M. Fordyce (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, devices, systems and kits for producing polymeric microbeads, including lanthanide-encoded microbeads. Among others, the present disclosur...