US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on June 30 for "Substrate holder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,835, issued on June 30, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Substrate holder" was invented by Augusto Manuel Tentori (Dublin, Calif.) and Rajiv Bharadwaj (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample holder includes a first member featuring a first retaining mechanism configured to retain a first substrate that includes a sample, a second member featuring a second retaining mechanism configured to retain a second substrate that includes a reagent medium, and an alignment mechanism connected to at least one of the first and second members, and configured to align the first and second members such tha...