ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,096, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Methods for cancer detection and monitoring" was invented by Bernhard Zimmermann (Manteca, Calif.), Raheleh Salari (San Carlos, Calif.), Ryan Swenerton (San Bruno, Calif.), Hsin-Ta Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Himanshu Sethi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for detecting single nucleotide variants in breast cancer, bladder cancer, or colorectal cancer. Additional methods and compositions, such as reaction mixtures and solid supports comprising clonal populations of nucleic acids, are provided. For example, provided...