ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,239, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for analyzing mixed cell populations" was invented by Aaron M. Newman (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Arash Ash Alizadeh (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for analyzing a mixed population of cells. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for digital cytometry of a biological sample, digital analysis of a biological sample, digital purification of a biological sample, evaluation of a disease in an individual...