ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,099, issued on June 2, was assigned to DIMENSIONGEN (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and Dimension Genomics Inc.
"Devices and methods for cytogenetic analysis" was invented by Michael David Austin (San Diego) and Han Cao (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Genome whole chromosome analysis is a critical gold standard method for clinicians to study molecular lesions at single cell level in diseases and cancers. However, they suffer from low-sample-yielding, labor-intensive procedures that require subjective manual involvement of highly trained professionals. Here we disclose new devices, systems, and methods to automate, standardize...