ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,821, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for visualizing structural variation and phasing information" was invented by Michael Schnall-Levin (San Francisco), Alexander Wong (San Francisco) and David Luther Alan Stafford (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing structural variation or phasing information is provided. The system accesses a nucleic acid sequence dataset corresponding to a target nucleic acid in a sample. The dataset comprises a header, synopsis, and data section. The data section comprises a plurality of sequencing reads. Each sequen...