ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,518, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Multi-resolution in situ decoding" was invented by Felice Alessio Bava (Rome), David Hoffman (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Elijah Roberts (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing multi-resolution in situ decoding are described. The method may comprise, for example, acquiring at least one first image of a biological sample at a first optical resolution; identifying locations for a plurality of target analytes based on the at least one first image; acquiring at least one second image of the biological sample at a sec...