US Patent Issued to GRAIL on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for tumor fraction estimation from small variants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,662, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GRAIL Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for tumor fraction estimation from small variants" was invented by Samuel S. Gross (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joshua Newman (Mountain View, Calif.), Pranav Parmjit Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Collin Melton (Menlo Park, Calif.), Oliver Claude Venn (San Francisco) and Earl Hubbell (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cancer subject tumor fraction estimation comprise obtaining a first plurality of nucleic acid fragment sequences from the subject's liquid biological sample. The first plurality of sequences represe...