US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on May 26 for "Methods and compositions related to microsphere surface gelation" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,706, issued on May 26, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc..

"Methods and compositions related to microsphere surface gelation" was invented by Shalini Gohil (Castro Valley, Calif.), Shea Thompson Lance (Livermore, Calif.), Geoffrey P. McDermott (Alfredton, Australia), David Michael Patterson (Oakland, Calif.) and Andrew D. Price (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to compositions and methods for generating hydrogel coatings on features. In some embodiments, hydrogel-coated features are prepared by horseradish peroxidase-mediated gelation of microspheres. Some embodiments relate to methods f...