US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 14 for "Spatial transcriptomics in pips" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,138, issued on July 14, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Spatial transcriptomics in pips" was invented by Robert Meltzer (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and systems for single-cell, multi-omic analysis of target cells without microfluidic devices. The disclosed methods involve the use of template particles to template the formation of monodisperse droplets to generally capture a single target cell from a population of cells in an encapsulation, derive a plurality of distinct mRNA molecules from the single target cell, and quantify the distinct mRNA molecules to generate an ex...