US Patent Issued to GENOMICS on July 22 for "Computer-implemented method of analysing genetic data about an organism" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,948, issued on July 22, was assigned to GENOMICS Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Computer-implemented method of analysing genetic data about an organism" was invented by Christopher Charles Alan Spencer (Oxford, Great Britain), Gerard Anton Lunter (Oxford, Great Britain), Peter James Donnelly (Oxford, Great Britain) and Vincent Yann Marie Plagnol (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are disclosed for analysing genetic data about an organism. In one arrangement, input units are derived from studies that provide information about the association between genetic variants and phenotypes. Input units are assigned t...