ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,044, issued on March 17, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying cells that are antigen-specific for an immunogenic feature" was invented by Wyatt J. McDonnell (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of identifying antigen-specific cells include obtaining a representation, for each respective immunogenic feature in a plurality of features, of a corresponding count of the respective feature bound to each immune cell in a population of cells. The immune cells are clustered using the representation to identify a plurality of clusters, each including a d...