US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on May 13 for "Methods for spatial analysis using proximity ligation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,486, issued on May 13, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods for spatial analysis using proximity ligation" was invented by David Michael Patterson (Oakland, Calif.), Sultan Doganay Tuncer (Danville, Calif.) and Zachary Bent (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for detecting and spatially locating analyte interactions and gene expression in a biological sample. For example, provided herein are methods of determining a location of at least one analyte in a biological sample using analyte-binding moieties, proximity ligation, and an array ...