US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on March 17 for "Production and tracking of engineered cells with combinatorial genetic modifications" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,557, issued on March 17, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.) and GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Production and tracking of engineered cells with combinatorial genetic modifications" was invented by Marc Salit (Gaithersburg, Md.), Lars M. Steinmetz (Stanford, Calif.), Robert St. Onge (Stanford, Calif.), Justin D. Smith (Stanford, Calif.) and Kevin R. Roy (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for making genetically modified cells by introducing combination...