US Patent Issued to Natera on Dec. 9 for "Methods for non-invasive prenatal ploidy calling" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,267, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Methods for non-invasive prenatal ploidy calling" 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 gestating fetus from genotypic data measured from a mixed s...