US Patent Issued to Seven Bridges Genomics on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for detecting recombination" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,535, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Seven Bridges Genomics Inc. (Charlestown, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for detecting recombination" was invented by Devin Locke (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for screening for disease in a genomic sample is includes receiving a representation of a reference genome comprising a sequence of symbols. The presence of a predicted mutational event is identified in a location of the reference genome. An alternate path is created in the reference genome representing the predicted mutational event. A plurality of sequence reads are obtained from a genomic sample, wherein at lea...