US Patent Issued to GRAIL on Sept. 9 for "Methylation markers and targeted methylation probe panel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,482, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GRAIL INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methylation markers and targeted methylation probe panel" was invented by Samuel S. Gross (Menlo Park, Calif.), Oliver Claude Venn (Menlo Park, Calif.), Seyedmehdi Shojaee (Menlo Park, Calif.), John Beausang (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Arash Jamshidi (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 provided herein are methods of designing, making, and using the cancer assay panel for the diagnosis of cancer."

The patent was filed on Sep...