ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,392, issued on May 12, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Molecular array generation using photoresist" was invented by David Michael Patterson (Oakland, Calif.), Denis Pristinski (Dublin, Calif.), Preyas Shah (Milpitas, Calif.), Steven William Short (Pleasanton, Calif.), Dieter Wilk (San Jose, Calif.) and Siyuan Xing (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in some aspects are methods for light-controlled in situ surface patterning of a substrate. Compositions such as nucleic acid arrays produced by the methods are also disclosed. In some embodiments, a method disclosed herein comprises using phot...