ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,425, issued on July 29, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Rapid detection of gene fusions" was invented by Viraj Deshpande (San Diego), Johann Felix Wilhelm Schlesinger (San Diego), Sean Truong (San Diego), John Cooper Roddey (San Diego), Michael Ruehle (Fort Worth, Texas), Severine Catreux (San Diego) and Rami Mehio (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs for identifying a gene fusion in a biological sample are disclosed. The method can include actions of obtaining first data that represents a plurality of aligned reads, identifying a plurality of fusion cand...