US Patent Issued to 10x Genomics on Sept. 22 for "Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,166, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasonton, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides" was invented by Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen (Dublin, Calif.), Phillip Belgrader (Livermore, Calif.) and Xinying Zheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, compositions and systems for analyzing individual cells or cell populations through a partitioned analysis of contents of individual cells or cell populations, such as cancer cells and cells of the immune system. Individual cells or cell populations may be co-partitioned with processing reagents for a...