US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on Nov. 4 for "Stabilization and/or compaction of nucleic acid molecules" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,251, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Stabilization and/or compaction of nucleic acid molecules" was invented by Jorge Ivan Hernandez Neuta (Stockholm), Jessica Ostlin (Stocksund, Sweden), Xiaoyan Qian (Stockholm) and Toon Verheyen (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure in some aspects relates to methods and compositions for accurately detecting and quantifying multiple analytes present in a biological sample. In some aspects, the methods and compositions provided herein address one or more issues associated with the stability and/or size of nucleic acid structure...