US Patent Issued to Natera on April 8 for "Methods for preparing a biological sample obtained from an individual for use in a genetic testing assay" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,073, issued on April 8, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Methods for preparing a biological sample obtained from an individual for use in a genetic testing assay" was invented by Matthew Rabinowitz (San Francisco), George Gemelos (Portland, Ore.), Milena Banjevic (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Allison Ryan (Belmont, Calif.), Zachary Demko (San Francisco), Matthew Hill (Belmont, Calif.), Bernhard Zimmermann (Manteca, Calif.), Johan Baner (San Francisco) and Styrmir Sigurjonsson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for determining the ploidy status of a chromosome in a g...