US Patent Issued to GRAIL on Oct. 7 for "Methylation markers and targeted methylation probe panel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,375, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GRAIL Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methylation markers and targeted methylation probe panel" was invented by Samuel S. Gross (Menlo Park, Calif.), Hamed Amini (Menlo Park, Calif.), Arash Jamshidi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Seyedmehdi Shojaee (Menlo Park, Calif.), Srinka Ghosh (Menlo Park, Calif.), Rongsu Qi (Menlo Park, Calif.), M. Cyrus Maher (Menlo Park, Calif.), Alexander P. Fields (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Oliver Claude Venn (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description provides a cancer assay panel for targeted detection of cancer-specific methylation patterns. Further ...