US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on July 21 for "Systems and methods for nearly isotropic optical resolution using tilted structured illumination microscopy" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,494, issued on July 21, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for nearly isotropic optical resolution using tilted structured illumination microscopy" was invented by David Hoffman (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilted structured illumination pattern for use in an optical system is generated, wherein the tilted structured illumination pattern is not symmetrical about a center point of a back pupil of the system, and wherein the tilted structured illumination pattern is based on exactly two wave vectors and defines spatial frequencies along an optical axis of an objective of...