US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on March 11 for "Sample handling apparatus and image registration methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,085, issued on March 11, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Sample handling apparatus and image registration methods" was invented by Augusto Manuel Tentori (Dublin, Calif.), Hanyoup Kim (Foster City, Calif.), Siyuan Xing (Newark, Calif.), Felice Alessio Bava (Pleasanton, Calif.), Rajiv Bharadwaj (Pleasanton, Calif.), Cedric Uytingco (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Erica Graziosa (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aligning a sample to an array is provided. An image of sample image of a sample can be received by a data processor. The sample image having a first resolution. An array image in...