US Patent Issued to Myriad Women's Health on Dec. 16 for "Deep learning based variant calling using machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,970, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Myriad Women's Health Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Deep learning based variant calling using machine learning" was invented by Sun Hong (South San Francisco, Calif.), Kyle Beauchamp (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Kevin Haas (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a respective carrier status of an individual is provided. In one implementation, a method includes training a neural network model based on predetermined information related to at least one genetic variant and determining the respective carrier status based on a normali...