US Patent Issued to Guardant Health on June 24 for "Methods for multi-resolution analysis of cell-free nucleic acids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,873, issued on June 24, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods for multi-resolution analysis of cell-free nucleic acids" was invented by Darya Chudova (San Jose, Calif.), Helmy Eltoukhy (Atherton, Calif.), Stefanie Ann Ward Mortimer (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Diana Abdueva (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for enriching for multiple genomic regions using a first bait set that selectively hybridizes to a first set of genomic regions of a nucleic acid sample and a second bait set that selectively hybridizes to a second set of genomic regions of the nucleic...