ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,087, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Sequencing methods with partitioning" was invented by Andrew Kennedy (San Diego) and Marcin Pawel Sikora (Burlingame, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sequencing methods for sequencing populations of nucleic acid molecules in which sequencing reads of amplicons are grouped into families according to the nucleic acid molecule of origin by partitioning, sample indexes and information from the sequencing reads, such as start and end points. The methods described herein provide many advantages over other sequencing analysis methods, including the iden...