US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on Jan. 20 for "Systems, methods, and compositions for generating multi-omic information from single cells" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,102, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Systems, methods, and compositions for generating multi-omic information from single cells" was invented by Peter A. Sims (Ardsley, N.Y.) and Timothy R. Olsen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Single-cell multi-omics by co-encapsulating a single cell with two beads, the first an RNA barcoding bead having barcoded mRNA capture primer oligonucleotides attached on the bead surface; and the second a DNA barcoding bead having two types of oligonucleotides releasably attached to the surface: (1) barcoded adapter oligonucl...