US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on March 18 for "Methods and systems for nucleic acid preparation and chromatin analysis" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,732, issued on March 18, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for nucleic acid preparation and chromatin analysis" was invented by Geoffrey McDermott (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for nucleic acid preparation and/or analysis. Nucleic acids may be derived from one or more cells. Nucleic acid preparation may comprise generating nucleic acid molecules of varying lengths. Nucleic acid analysis may comprise identifying nucleic acid sequence information with nucleosome position information."

The patent was filed on June 21, 202...