ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,203, issued on June 2, was assigned to ThinkCyte Inc. (Tokyo), The University of Tokyo (Tokyo) and RIKEN (Saitama, Japan).
"Cellular phenotype screening method" was invented by Asako Tsubouchi (Tokyo), Sadao Ota (Tokyo) and Fumiko Kawasaki (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for screening cells, the method including a step of preparing a plurality of cells which are tagged with a first barcode nucleic acid associated with a test target and treated with the test target, a step of sorting the plurality of cells based on cellular phenotype using an imaging cell sorter, and a step of identi...