ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,132, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for single cell processing" was invented by Michael Schnall-Levin (San Francisco) and Ali R. Alemozafar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for measuring one or more analytes at the single cell level. In some instances, sequencing of a composite barcode sequence may identify a type of analyte, identify a cell, and determine that the type of analyte originated from the cell. In some instances, a probability that a type of analyte originated from the cell may be determined. ...