US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Dec. 9 for "Methods and systems for analyzing nucleic acid molecules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,434, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for analyzing nucleic acid molecules" was invented by David M. Kurtz (San Francisco), Maximilian Diehn (San Carlos, Calif.) and Arash Ash Alizadeh (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and materials to detect cancer, transplant rejection, or fetal genetic abnormalities from a biopsy are described. In some cases, cell-free nucleic acids can be sequenced, and the sequencing result can be utilized to detect sequences indicative of a neoplasm, transplant rejection, or fetal ge...