US Patent Issued to SEQUENOM on Aug. 26 for "Methods and processes for non-invasive estimation of fetal fraction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,736, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SEQUENOM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and processes for non-invasive estimation of fetal fraction" was invented by Lin Tang (San Diego) and Cosmin Deciu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in part herein are methods and processes that can be used for non-invasive assessment of a genetic variation which can lead to diagnosis of a particular medical condition or conditions. Such methods and processes can, for example, identify dissimilarities or similarities for one or more features between a subject data set and a reference data set, generate a multidimensional matrix, reduce the ma...