US Patent Issued to Natera on Dec. 30 for "System and method for cleaning noisy genetic data and determining chromosome copy number" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,728, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"System and method for cleaning noisy genetic data and determining chromosome copy number" was invented by Matthew Rabinowitz (San Francisco), Milena Banjevic (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Zachary Demko (San Francisco), David Johnson (San Francisco), Dusan Kijacic (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Dimitri Petrov (Stanford, Calif.), Joshua Sweetkind-Singer (San Jose, Calif.) and Jing Xu (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method for increasing the fidelity of measured genetic data, for making allele calls, and for determining...