US Patent Issued to Sequenom on Sept. 23 for "Methods and processes for assessment of genetic mosaicism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,550, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sequenom Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and processes for assessment of genetic mosaicism" was invented by Ronald Michael McCullough (Encinitas, Calif.), Jenna L. Wardrop (San Diego) and Eyad Almasri (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology provided herein relates in part to non-invasive classification of one or more mosaic copy number variations (CNVs) for a test sample. Technology provided herein is useful for classifying a mosaic CNV for a sample as part of non-invasive pre-natal (NIPT) testing and oncology testing, for example. In particular, a method is provided for class...