ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,088, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Probe-based analysis of nucleic acids and proteins" was invented by Katherine Pfeiffer (San Francisco), Andrew Scott Kohlway (Dublin, Calif.), Andrew John Hill (Seattle) and Paul Eugene Lund (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for processing biomolecules (e.g., nucleic acid molecules, proteins) from a sample. A method for processing biomolecules may comprise hybridizing a probe molecule to a target region of a nucleic acid molecule (e.g., a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule) and barcoding the probe-nu...