ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,074, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Processes and systems for preparation of nucleic acid sequencing libraries and libraries prepared using same" was invented by Paul Hardenbol (San Francisco), Pranav Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Benjamin Hindson (Pleasanton, Calif.), Paul William Wyatt (Pleasanton, Calif.), Keith Bjornson (Fremont, Calif.), Indira Wu (San Carlos, Calif.) and Zahra Kamila Belhocine (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods for preparing a sequencing library including the steps of providing a template nucleic acid sequence, dNTPs, dUTP, a ...