US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 24 for "Single cell mapping and transcriptome analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,787, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Single cell mapping and transcriptome analysis" was invented by Matthew Krummel (San Francisco) and Kenneth Hsueh-heng Hu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of tagging cells with unique oligonucleotide "zipcode" constructs are provided. By these methods and associated compositions, cells in a multicellular structure such as a tissue section can be tagged with a construct, the unique composition of which is associated with the cells position in the multicellular structure. Subsequently, the multicellular structure...