US Patent Issued to Pivot Bio on Sept. 15 for "Plant colonization assays using natural microbial barcodes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,713, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Pivot Bio Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Plant colonization assays using natural microbial barcodes" was invented by Douglas Higgins (Berkeley, Calif.) and Andrew Abel Prior (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is drawn to methods of utilizing nucleic acid barcodes and corresponding amplifying sites in cells in which the barcodes naturally occur. These barcodes and amplifying sites are reconfigured into a single nucleic acid cassette that provides for ease of use in tagging particular species, strains, or variants of cells, each with a different barcode. These ba...