US Patent Issued to Personalis on April 8 for "Methods for using mosaicism in nucleic acids sampled distal to their origin" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,083, issued on April 8, was assigned to Personalis Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Methods for using mosaicism in nucleic acids sampled distal to their origin" was invented by John West (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for improving detection and monitoring of human diseases. The methods can be used to provide spatial and/or developmental localization of the source of each differential mutation within the body. The methods can also be used to generate a mutation map of a subject. And the mutation map can be used to monitoring state(s) of health of one or more tissues of a subject."

The patent w...