US Patent Issued to WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY on April 7 for "High throughput genetic barcoding and analysis methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,462, issued on April 7, was assigned to WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston).

"High throughput genetic barcoding and analysis methods" was invented by David Yu Zhang (Houston), Ping Song (Houston), Omid Veiseh (Houston), Siavash Parkhideh (Houston), Sudip Mukherjee (Houston), Maria Isabel Ruocco (Houston), Boram Kim (Houston) and Yuxuan Cheng (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are high-throughput methods for genetic barcoding and analysis, e.g., for tagging each biomaterial capsule with a barcode cell. These barcode cells are derived from patient samples, and thus embody natural human genetic variation. Also p...