US Patent Issued to Myriad Women's Health on Feb. 4 for "Methods of preparing a DNA fraction enriched with circulating tumor DNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,392, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Myriad Women's Health Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Methods of preparing a DNA fraction enriched with circulating tumor DNA" was invented by Jared Robert Maguire (San Francisco), Clement S. Chu (San Francisco), Imran Saeedul Haque (San Francisco), Eric Andrew Evans (San Bruno, Calif.) and Noah Welker (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a laboratory execution system that provides for automation of laboratory processes. A centralized data management system may be dynamically updated and used to facilitate management of components of the lab...