ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,460, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verily Health Inc. (Dallas).

"XSEQ" was invented by Jerrod Schwartz (San Francisco), Ci Chu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Charles Kim (San Bruno, Calif.), Bi Yu Li (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Xiaomi Du (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for identification of an expression profile, a transcriptional profile, and/or an epigenetic profile from a cell-containing sample. Also provided are compositions for use in the disclosed methods."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/740,107.

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