ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,220, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ORBIT GENOMICS INC. (Boulder, Colo.).
"Methods and systems for microsatellite analysis" was invented by Harold Garner (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for classifying microsatellite and minor alleles in a sample. Also, the present disclosure provides methods and systems for generating classifiers for conditions based on microsatellite loci and for performing pan-cancer assays. The methods and systems can involve next-generation sequencing of nucleic acid samples from subjects and genotyping microsatellite loci in the samples."...