US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 9 for "Noise measure for copy number analysis on targeted panel sequencing data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,290, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Noise measure for copy number analysis on targeted panel sequencing data" was invented by Tobias Zacherle (Cologne, Germany) and Johannes Heuckmann (Kerpen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for determining the statistical noise level in the calculation of a subject's genetic copy number value in massively parallel nucleic acid sequencing data derived from a sample, as well as a method for determining a subject's genetic copy number value in massively parallel nucleic acid sequencing data derived from a s...