US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on July 22 for "Methods for profiling and quantitating cell-free RNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,947, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods for profiling and quantitating cell-free RNA" was invented by Lian Chye Winston Koh (Stanford, Calif.), Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, Calif.), Hei-Mun Christina Fan (Fremont, Calif.) and Wenying Pan (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to methods for assessing the health of a tissue by characterizing circulating nucleic acids in a biological sample. According to certain embodiments, methods for assessing the health of a tissue include the steps of detecting a sam...