US Patent Issued to Natera on Dec. 9 for "Detecting mutations and ploidy in chromosomal segments" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,429, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Detecting mutations and ploidy in chromosomal segments" was invented by Joshua Babiarz (Castro Valley, Calif.), Tudor Pompiliu Constantin (Berkeley, Calif.), Lane A. Eubank (San Carlos, Calif.), George Gemelos (Portland, Ore.), Matthew Micah Hill (Belmont, Calif.), Huseyin Eser Kirkizlar (Los Angeles), Matthew Rabinowitz (San Francisco), Onur Sakarya (Redwood City, Calif.), Styrmir Sigurjonsson (San Jose, Calif.) and Bernhard Zimmermann (Manteca, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods, systems, and computer readable medium for detec...