US Patent Issued to INIVATA on March 11 for "Method for amplifying a genomic sample" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,249, issued on March 11, was assigned to INIVATA LTD. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Method for amplifying a genomic sample" was invented by Samuel Woodhouse (Cambridge, Great Britain), Giovanni Marsico (Cambridge, Great Britain), Vincent Plagnol (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Stefanie Lensing (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is method for, among other things, estimating the number of sequence variations in a sample of DNA. In some embodiments, the method can be used to estimate the mutational load of a sample. In some embodiments, the method makes use of a set of primers that have 3' ends that ...