ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,539, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for nucleic acid analysis" was invented by Xinying Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Serge Saxonov (Oakland, Calif.), Michael Schnall-Levin (San Francisco), Kevin Ness (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Rajiv Bharadwaj (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods, compositions and systems for analyzing sequence information while retaining structural and molecular context of that sequence information."

The patent was filed on Nov. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/520,514.

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