US Patent Issued to GUARDANT HEALTH on July 1 for "Microsatellite instability detection in cell-free DNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,902, issued on July 1, was assigned to GUARDANT HEALTH INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Microsatellite instability detection in cell-free DNA" was invented by Aliaksandr Artsiomenka (Mountain View, Calif.), Marcin Pawel Sikora (Burlingame, Calif.), Catalin Barbacioru (Fremont, Calif.), Darya Chudova (San Jose, Calif.) and Martina I. Lefterova (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for determining the microsatellite instability status of samples. In one aspect, the methods include quantifying a number of different repeat lengths present at each of a plurality of microsatellite loci from sequence info...