US Patent Issued to Myriad Women's Health on Jan. 27 for "Nucleic acid sequencing adapters and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,719, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Myriad Women's Health Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Nucleic acid sequencing adapters and uses thereof" was invented by Eric Andrew Evans (Brisbane, Calif.), Imran Saeedul Haque (San Francisco), Kyle Beauchamp (San Francisco), Clement Chu (South San Francisco, Calif.), Carlo G. Artieri (San Bruno, Calif.) and Noah Welker (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-fidelity, high-throughput nucleic acid sequencing enables healthcare practitioners and patients to gain insight into genetic variants and potential health risks. However, previous methods of nucleic acid sequencin...