US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College, Vilnius University on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for barcoding nucleic acids" (American, Lithuanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,860, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Systems and methods for barcoding nucleic acids" was invented by David A. Weitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Allon Moshe Klein (Cambridge, Mass.), Ilke Akartuna (Cambridge, Mass.), Linas Mazutis (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Marc W. Kirschner (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to microfluidics and labeled nucleic acids. For example, certain aspects are generally directed to systems and methods for labeling nucleic acids within microfluidic droplets. I...