ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,640, issued on May 27, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Analysis of nucleic acid sequences" was invented by Benjamin Hindson (Pleasanton, Calif.), Christopher Hindson (Pleasanton, Calif.), Michael Schnall-Levin (San Francisco), Kevin Ness (Pleasanton, Calif.), Mirna Jarosz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Serge Saxonov (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods, compositions and systems for haplotype phasing and copy number variation assays. Included within this disclosure are methods and systems for combining the barcode comprising beads with samples in multiple separ...