ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,683, issued on May 19, was assigned to Plexium Inc. (San Diego).
"Oligonucleotide encoded chemical libraries" was invented by Kandaswamy Vijayan (San Diego), Andrew Boyd Macconnell (San Diego), Joseph Franklin Rokicki (Del Mar, Calif.) 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 identical copies of the chemical compound and many substantially identical copies of the DNA barcode. The compound consists of one or more chemical monomers, w...