US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Aug. 18 for "Barcoding systems and methods for gene sequencing and other applications" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,767, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Barcoding systems and methods for gene sequencing and other applications" was invented by David A. Weitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Huidan Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), John Heyman (Cambridge, Mass.) and Allon Moshe Klein (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 or other compartments, for instance, arising from a cell. In one...