US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on July 7 for "Methods and compositions for improved probe specificity" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,196, issued on July 7, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for improved probe specificity" was invented by Malte Kuhnemund (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods and compositions for analysis of a target nucleic acid, such as in situ detection of a region of interest in a polynucleotide in a tissue sample. In some aspects, provided herein are methods and compositions for detecting a region of interest in a target nucleic acid. In some aspects, provided herein are circularizable probes and oligonucleotide probes for analyzing a ta...