ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,461, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Expressed barcode libraries and uses thereof" was invented by Yaara Oren (Cambridge, Mass.), Aviv Regev (Cambridge, Mass.) and Joan Brugge (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules comprising molecular barcodes having a variable sequence operably linked to a promoter and compositions comprising such nucleic acid molecules. Further disclosed herein are methods for simultaneously m...