US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Determining cell, tissue, or lesion representations in cell-free DNA" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,840, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining cell, tissue, or lesion representations in cell-free DNA" was invented by Kahn Rhrissorrakrai (Woodside, N.Y.), Filippo Utro (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Chaya Levovitz (New York) and Laxmi Parida (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes to determine a cell, tissue or a lesion representation in cell-free DNA comprises inputting, to a processor, cell-free DNA (cfDNA) genomic profiles from one or more fluid biopsy samples from a patient and one or more genomic profiles from one or more cell...