ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,717, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for multimodal in situ analysis" was invented by Felice Alessio Bava (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure in some aspects relates to methods for assessing multi-modal in situ transcriptomics by combining microscopy and sequencing technologies and methods. In some aspects, the methods provided herein involve analyzing one or more analyte panels in a sample using a first imaging modality or set of imaging modalities. Based on said analysis, a different analyte panel and/or one or more different imaging modali...