ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,922, issued on July 14, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Spatial-dependent analysis of biological material from intact tissue samples" was invented by Soren Warming (South San Francisco, Calif.), Xin Ye (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jun Zou (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jonas Doerr (South San Francisco, Calif.), Michelle Dourado (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Matthew Chang (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biological research requires isolation and analysis of material, for example, RNA, DNA and protein, from tissue samples. The methods and compositions described herein all...