ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,715, issued on July 1, was assigned to Seer Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for sample preparation, data generation, and protein corona analysis" was invented by William Manning (Redwood City, Calif.), Young Kim (Union City, Calif.), Brandon Kwan-Leong (Daly City, Calif.), Hope Liou (Pleasanton, Calif.), Xiaoyan Zhao (Foster City, Calif.), Daniel Hornburg (Foster City, Calif.) and Martin Goldberg (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated sample preparation and processing of protein corona are described herein, as well as its application in the discovery of advanced diagnostic ...