US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Oct. 27 for "Robotic barcode tagging of distinct cell populations in intact tissue" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,437, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Robotic barcode tagging of distinct cell populations in intact tissue" was invented by Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah (St Paul, Minn.), Daryl M. Gohl (Minneapolis), Lyudmila Vulchanova Hart (St. Paul, Minn.) and Jacob O'Brien (Hudson, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for injecting a substance into one or more cells of a cell population in a tissue sample, comprising: a robotic manipulator apparatus configured to hold and position a micropipette; an injector controller; a robotic apparatus configured to manipulate a focal plane of a mic...