ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,702, issued on March 17, was assigned to Plexium Inc. (San Diego).

"Oligonucleotide encoded chemical libraries, related systems, devices, and methods for detecting, analyzing, quantifying, and testing biologics/genetics" was invented by Kandaswamy Vijayan (San Diego), Kapil Mahakalkar (San Diego), Yi Zhang (San Diego), Andrew Boyd Macconnell (San Diego), Joseph Franklin Rokicki (San Diego) and Michael Van Nguyen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a bead with a covalently attached chemical compound and a covalently attached DNA barcode and methods for using such beads. The bead has many substantially ...