ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,074, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Genome Research Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Method of characterising a DNA sample" was invented by Serena Nik-Zainal (Hinxton, Great Britain), Helen Davies (Hinxton, Great Britain), Dominik Glodzik (Hinxton, Great Britain) and Sandro Morganella (Hinxton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of characterising a DNA sample obtained from a tumour, the method including the steps of: determining the presence or absence of a plurality of base substitution signatures, rearrangement signatures and indel signatures in the sample and copy number profiles for ...