US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on March 4 for "Methods for generating barcoded nucleic acid molecules using fixed cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,890, issued on March 4, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods for generating barcoded nucleic acid molecules using fixed cells" was invented by Joshua Delaney (Oakland, Calif.), Shalini Gohil (Castro Valley, Calif.), Jill Herschleb (San Francisco), Adam Lowe (Mountain House, Calif.), Albert Kim (Los Angeles) and Meiliana Tjandra (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for using fixed biological samples in partition-based assays. In at least one embodiment, the disclosure provides a composition comprising a fixed biological sample and an un-fixi...