ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,273, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for image registration or alignment" was invented by Olga Vorobyova (Pleasanton, Calif.), Brynn Claypoole (Pleasanton, Calif.), Dongyao Li (Pleasanton, Calif.), Neil Ira Weisenfeld (Pleasanton, Calif.), Didem Pelin Sarikaya (Pleasanton, Calif.), Peigeng Li (Pleasanton, Calif.), Guy Joseph (Pleasanton, Calif.), Eric Siegel (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Naga Sudha Kodavatikanti (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for overlaying image data for a biological sample on spatial analyte data are provided. A first ...