US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on July 22 for "Systems and methods for nucleic acid preparation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,893, issued on July 22, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for nucleic acid preparation" was invented by Tobias Daniel Wheeler (Alameda, Calif.), Rajiv Bharadwaj (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Katherine Pfeiffer (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for nucleic acid processing. A method for preparing a sequencing set may include providing a template nucleic acid and amplifying the template nucleic acid to provide a complementary nucleic acid. Next, the complementary nucleic acid may be fragmented and barcoded to produce a first set of b...