US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on Sept. 15 for "Circular probes and methods for sample analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,738, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Circular probes and methods for sample analysis" was invented by Zahra Kamila Belhocine (Pleasanton, Calif.), Justin Costa (Union City, Calif.) and Eswar Prasad Ramachandran Iyer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods and compositions for analyzing a target nucleic acid, such as in situ detection of a region of interest in a polynucleotide in a cell or tissue sample. In some aspects, provided herein are circular probes (e.g., dumbbell probes) for analyzing a target nucleic acid, as we...