ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,934, issued on March 25, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for detection of aneuploidy" was invented by Styrmir Sigurjonsson (San Jose, Calif.), Naresh Vankayalapati (San Francisco), Allison Ryan (Belmont, Calif.), Zachary Demko (San Francisco) and Milena Banjevic (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are improved methods for detecting aneuploidy in a sample. The methods in certain embodiments are used for the analysis of circulating DNA in serum samples, such as circulating fetal DNA or circulating tumor DNA. In certain embodiments, chromosome or chromosome segm...