ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,096, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Stabilization and/or compaction of nucleic acid structures" was invented by Toon Verheyen (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure in some aspects relates to methods and compositions for accurately detecting and quantifying multiple analytes present in a biological sample. In some aspects, the methods and compositions provided herein address one or more issues associated with the stability and/or size of nucleic acid structures such as rolling circle amplification products in the biological sample."

The patent was filed on Au...