ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,160, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MEDICOVER PUBLIC CO LTD (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Multiplexed parallel analysis of targeted genomic regions for non-invasive prenatal testing" was invented by George Koumbaris (Lythrodontas, Cyprus), Elena Kypri (Nicosia, Cyprus), Kyriakos Tsangaras (Limassol, Cyprus), Achilleas Achilleos (Limassol, Cyprus), Petros Mina (Nicosia, Cyprus), Elisavet A Papageorgiou (Nicosia, Cyprus) and Philippos C. Patsalis (Nicosia, Cyprus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for non-invasive prenatal testing that allow for detecting risk of chromosomal and subchromosomal abnormalities, includ...