ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,733, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Inivata Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Methods and systems for detecting a primary disease" was invented by Tim Forshew (Hitchin, Great Britain) and Giovanni Marsico (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems disclosed herein relate to detecting a presence or an absence of a second primary disease in a subject. The methods may comprise performing a workflow comprising a minimal residual disease (MRD) assay on a biological sample and using a result of the workflow to detect a presence or absence of a second primary disease in the subject."
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