US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on Sept. 2 for "Methods of capturing multiple analytes on a spatial array" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,544, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods of capturing multiple analytes on a spatial array" was invented by Augusto Manuel Tentori (Dublin, Calif.), Rajiv Bharadwaj (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Felice Alessio Bava (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample holder includes a first member featuring a first retaining mechanism configured to retain a first substrate that includes a sample, a second member featuring a second retaining mechanism configured to retain a second substrate that includes a reagent medium, and an alignment mechanism connected to at least one of the first and second m...