ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,047, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Myriad Women's Health Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Noninvasive prenatal diagnostic methods" was invented by Imran Saeedul Haque (San Francisco), Jared Robert Maguire (Oakland, Calif.), Clement Chu (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Eric Andrew Evans (Brisbane, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prenatal genetic testing allows early detection of genetic disease in a fetus. Described herein are methods of detecting the presence or absence of a genetic variant in a region of interest in the genome of a fetus in a pregnant woman. The methods are noninvasive, and can use cell-free DNA (c...