US Patent Issued to THE BROAD INSTITUTE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 17 for "Massively parallel on-chip construction of synthetic microbial communities" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,526, issued on March 17, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Massively parallel on-chip construction of synthetic microbial communities" was invented by Jared Scott Kehe (Cambridge, Mass.), Cheri Ackerman (Cambridge, Mass.), Paul Blainey (Cambridge, Mass.) and Anthony Kulesa (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for combinatorial assessment of nanoscale droplets, as specifically exemplified by massively parallel assessment of spatially-directed (while agnostic as to precise drop...