US Patent Issued to Guardant Health on May 27 for "Methods and systems for analyzing nucleic acid molecules" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,634, issued on May 27, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for analyzing nucleic acid molecules" was invented by Andrew Kennedy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods for processing nucleic acid populations containing different forms (e.g., RNA and DNA, single-stranded or double-stranded) and/or extents of modification (e.g., cytosine methylation, association with proteins). These methods accommodate multiple forms and/or modifications of nucleic acid in a sample, such that sequence information can be obtained for multiple forms. The methods also preserve t...