US Patent Issued to PATTERN BIOSCIENCE on April 7 for "Compositions and methods for cellular phenotype assessment of a sample using confined volume arrays" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,505, issued on April 7, was assigned to PATTERN BIOSCIENCE INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Compositions and methods for cellular phenotype assessment of a sample using confined volume arrays" was invented by Matthew Fisher (Austin, Texas), Nicolas Arab (Austin, Texas), Ross Johnson (Austin, Texas) and David Bussian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of the invention are directed to evaluating and identifying cells by recording and interpreting a time-dependent signal produced by unique cell respiration and permeability attributes of isolated viable cells. Some methods comprise dividing the sample into two or mor...