US Patent Issued to Genentech, Foundation Medicine on June 17 for "Therapeutic and diagnostic methods for cancer" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,128, issued on June 17, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Foundation Medicine Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Therapeutic and diagnostic methods for cancer" was invented by Richard Bourgon (South San Francisco, Calif.), David Fabrizio (Cambridge, Mass.), Gregg Fine (South San Francisco, Calif.), Garrett M. Frampton (Cambridge, Mass.), Priti Hegde (South San Francisco, Calif.), Sanjeev Mariathasan (South San Francisco, Calif.), Philip J. Stephens (Cambridge, Mass.), James Xin Sun (Cambridge, Mass.) and Roman Yelensky (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides therapeutic and d...