ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,943, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tempus AI Inc. (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for next generation sequencing uniform probe design" was invented by Richard Blidner (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining an optimized probe set. The method proceeds by obtaining a set of probes, where each probe has a respective concentration. The set of probes is assayed against a sample library, and at least i) a respective recovery rate for each probe in the set of probes, and ii) a median recovery rate for the set of probes are obtained. Modify the respective concentration of each probe that ...