US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Dec. 30 for "Deconvolution and detection of rare DNA in plasma" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,731, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Deconvolution and detection of rare DNA in plasma" was invented by Kun Zhang (San Diego) and Dinh Diep (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to a method for detecting the presence of one or more nucleic acids indicative of a health condition, tissue of origin, germ layer of origin or organ of origin in a mixture of nucleic acids comprising performing methylation analysis on a sample comprising a plurality of nucleic acids and determining whether the sample includes a plurality of methylation haplo...