ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,635, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aqtual Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).
"Methods for sequencing samples" was invented by Dietrich Stephan (San Francisco), Vern Norviel (San Francisco), Janet Warrington (Los Altos, Calif.) and Doug Dolginow (Basalt, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Personalized medicine involves the use of a patient's molecular markers to guide treatment regimens for the patient. The scientific literature provides multiple examples of correlations between drug treatment efficacy and the presence or absence of molecular markers in a patient sample. Methods are provided herein that permit efficient dissemination of...