ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,860, issued on April 21, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for processing RNA from cells" was invented by Luigi Jhon Alvarado Martinez (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Eswar Prasad Ramachandran Iyer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jason Bell (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods, compositions, and systems for processing nucleic acids from individual cells or cell populations. Cells are co-partitioned and processed, allowing for analysis of a variety of types of RNA from cells while minimizing ribosomal RNA species. The present invention enables high-throughput measure...