ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,778, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Mammoth Biosciences Inc. (Brisbane, Calif.).

"High-plex guide pooling for nucleic acid detection" was invented by Matthew Verosloff (South San Francisco, Calif.), Clare Fasching (Redwood City, Calif.), Carley Gelenter Hendriks (Burlingame, Calif.), Xin Miao (Mountain View, Calif.), James Paul Broughton (South San Francisco, Calif.), Lucas Benjamin Harrington (San Francisco) and Janice Sha Chen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, in certain embodiments, are various methods, reagents, and devices for detection of multiple target nucleic acids in a sample, or multiple se...