US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on May 13 for "Multicomponent nucleic acid probes for sample analysis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,499, issued on May 13, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Multicomponent nucleic acid probes for sample analysis" was invented by Evan Daugharthy (Cambridge, Mass.), Richard Terry (Carlisle, Mass.), Soo Hee Lee (Somerville, Mass.), Michele A. Busby (Needham, Mass.), Shoshoni Droz (Boston) and Ryan Gilmore (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, systems, compositions, and kits for analyzing target molecules, including using probes comprising a plurality of components for analyzing target molecules in situ in a sample."

The patent was filed on Aug. 16, 2021, unde...