US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on Jan. 28 for "Methods and systems for detection of protein-DNA interactions using proximity ligation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,271, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for detection of protein-DNA interactions using proximity ligation" was invented by Paul Giresi (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods that facilitate, at the single cell level, the linking of information from multiple different antibodies (e.g., antibodies specific for different proteins) to the genomic locations of the protein binding sites, while being able to distinguish these distinct events between antibodies."

The patent was filed on Feb. 19, 2021, under Applicatio...