Patents by Inventor Benjamin Hindson

Benjamin Hindson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240002837
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov, Paul Hardenbol, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Xinying Zheng, Phillip Belgrader
  • Publication number: 20230348897
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov
  • Publication number: 20230335220
    Abstract: The invention described herein solves challenges in providing a proficient, rapid and meaningful analysis of sequencing data. Methods and computer program products of the invention allow for a system to receive, analyze, and display sequencing data in real-time. The invention provides solutions to several difficulties encountered in assembling short sequencing-reads, and by doing so the invention improves the worth and significance of sequencing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Schnall-Levin, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov, Kevin Ness, Benjamin Hindson
  • Patent number: 11713457
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov
  • Patent number: 11629344
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov
  • Publication number: 20230087127
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov, Paul Hardenbol, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Xinying Zheng, Phillip Belgrader
  • Patent number: 11591637
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and compositions for sample processing, particularly for sequencing applications. Included within this disclosure are bead compositions, such as diverse libraries of beads attached to large numbers of oligonucleotides containing barcodes. Often, the beads provides herein are degradable. For example, they may contain disulfide bonds that are susceptible to reducing agents. The methods provided herein include methods of making libraries of barcoded beads as well as methods of combining the beads with a sample, such as by using a microfluidic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Donald Masquelier, Serge Saxonov, Landon Merrill, Andrew Price, Paul Hardenbol, Yuan Li
  • Publication number: 20230031318
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, systems and methods for tagging molecular events, reactions, species, etc., but without the need for complex, highly diverse libraries of tagging molecules. Provided are tagging moieties that can have a smaller number, a few, or even a single original “tagging” structure that may be transformed or transformable, in situ, into a collection of larger numbers of unique tagging or “barcode” moieties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Ryvkin, Jason Underwood, Michael Schnall-Levin, Tarjei Mikkelsen, Benjamin Hindson
  • Publication number: 20220340968
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov, Paul Hardenbol, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Xinying Zheng, Phillip Belgrader
  • Patent number: 11473138
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing. In some cases, this disclosure provides methods for the generation of polynucleotide barcode libraries, and for the attachment of such polynucleotides to target polynucleotides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Mirna Jarosz, Paul Hardenbol, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Serge Saxonov
  • Publication number: 20220290217
    Abstract: Methods for determining a location of a feature on an array include: (a) providing a first array with a first plurality of features immobilized on a first substrate; (b) providing a second array with a second plurality of features immobilized on a second substrate; (c) aligning the first array with the second array; (d) hybridizing a first barcoded oligonucleotide of the first array to a second barcoded oligonucleotide of the second array, thereby producing a combined nucleic acid that includes first and second spatial barcodes; (e) determining all or a portion of the sequence of the combined nucleic acid; and (f) identifying the second barcoded oligonucleotide associated with the first barcoded oligonucleotide in the combined nucleic acid, and determining the location of a second feature in the second array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: 10x Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas Frenz, Preyas Shah, Benjamin Hindson, Eswar Prasad Ramachandran Iyer
  • Patent number: 11421274
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Serge Saxonov, Kevin Ness, Paul Hardenbol, Michael Schnall-Levin, Mirna Jarosz
  • Patent number: 11414688
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods for preparing a sequencing library including the steps of providing a template nucleic acid sequence, dNTPs, dUTP, a primer, a polymerase, a dUTP excising enzyme, and a plurality of beads including oligonucleotide adapter sequence segments; amplifying the template nucleic acid with the polymerase, dNTPs, dUTP and random hexamer to provide a complementary nucleic acid sequence including occasional dUTPs; and excising the incorporated dUTPs with the dUTP excising enzyme to provide nicks in the complementary nucleic acid sequence to provide a sequencing library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Hardenbol, Pranav Patel, Benjamin Hindson, Paul William Wyatt, Keith Bjornson, Indira Wu, Zahra Kamila Belhocine
  • Patent number: 11371094
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, systems and methods for tagging molecular events, reactions, species, etc., but without the need for complex, highly diverse libraries of tagging molecules. Provided are tagging moieties that can have a smaller number, a few, or even a single original “tagging” structure that may be transformed or transformable, in situ, into a collection of larger numbers of unique tagging or “barcode” moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: 10X Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Ryvkin, Jason Underwood, Michael Schnall-Levin, Tarjei Mikkelsen, Benjamin Hindson
  • Patent number: 11359239
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Kevin Ness, Serge Saxonov, Paul Hardenbol
  • Publication number: 20220154175
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Serge Saxonov, Kevin Ness, Paul Hardenbol, Christopher Hindson, Donald Masquelier, Mirna Jarosz, Michael Schnall-Levin
  • Publication number: 20220112486
    Abstract: Methods for determining a location of a feature in a spatial array with features include: (a) providing an array with a first set of one or more features immobilized on a substrate, a first feature of the first set having a first barcoded oligonucleotide with a first spatial barcode and a first constant sequence, and a second set of one or more features immobilized on the substrate, a second feature of the second set having a second barcoded oligonucleotide with a second spatial barcode and a second constant sequence; (b) attaching the first constant sequence to the second constant sequence to generate a nucleic acid product; (c) determining all or a portion of a sequence of the nucleic acid product or a complement thereof; and (d) associating the second barcoded oligonucleotide with the first barcoded oligonucleotide in the nucleic acid product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: 10x Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eswar Prasad Ramachandran Iyer, Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Benjamin Hindson, Paul Giresi, Lucas Frenz
  • Publication number: 20220098659
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Hindson, Christopher Hindson, Michael Schnall-Levin, Kevin Ness, Mirna Jarosz, Serge Saxonov, Paul Hardenbol
  • Publication number: 20220097045
    Abstract: An integrated system for processing and preparing samples for analysis may include a microfluidic device including a plurality of parallel channel networks for partitioning the samples including various fluids, and connected to a plurality of inlet and outlet reservoirs, at least a portion of the fluids comprising reagents, a holder including a closeable lid hingedly coupled thereto, in which in a closed configuration, the lid secures the microfluidic device in the holder, and in an open configuration, the lid is a stand orienting the microfluidic device at a desired angle to facilitate recovery of partitions or droplets from the partitioned samples generated within the microfluidic device, and an instrument configured to receive the holder and apply a pressure differential between the plurality of inlet and outlet reservoirs to drive fluid movement within the channel networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Donald A. MASQUELIER, Benjamin HINDSON, Kevin NESS, Rajiv BHARADWAJ
  • Patent number: 11278901
    Abstract: A microfluidic emulsion droplet generation system and methods of use thereof are provided. The system may include a microfluidic substrate having a flow path configured and arranged for emulsion droplet generation, at least one textured surface in the flow path configured and arranged for inducing surface-mediated coalescence of emulsion droplets; and at least one channel junction in the flow path for emulsion droplet formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: 10x Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Bharadwaj, Tobias Daniel Wheeler, Kevin Ness, Benjamin Hindson