US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital on May 19 for "Single cell sequencing libraries of genomic transcript regions of interest in proximity to barcodes, and genotyping of said libraries" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,818, issued on May 19, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Single cell sequencing libraries of genomic transcript regions of interest in proximity to barcodes, and genotyping of said libraries" was invented by Peter van Galen (Boston), Volker Hovestadt (Boston), Travis Hughes (Cambridge, Mass.), Marc H. Wadsworth II (Cambridge, Mass.), Bradley Bernstein (Boston), Alexander K. Shalek (Cambridge, Mass.), Todd M. Gierahn (Cambridge, Mass.), J. Christopher Love (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ang A. Tu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventi...