US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for spatial analysis of analytes using fiducial alignment" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,974, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for spatial analysis of analytes using fiducial alignment" was invented by Neil Ira Weisenfeld (Lynnfield, Mass.), Narek Dshkhunyan (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Preyas Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for spatial analysis of analytes are provided. A data structure is obtained comprising an image, as an array of pixel values, of a sample on a substrate having a identifier, fiducial markers and a set of capture spots. The pixel values are used to identify derived fiducial spots. The substrate ident...