US Patent Issued to Ultima Genomics on Oct. 7 for "Methods for detecting nucleic acid variants" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,839, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ultima Genomics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Methods for detecting nucleic acid variants" was invented by Gilad Almogy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mark Pratt (Bozeman, Mont.), Omer Barad (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), Simchon Faigler (Bet Izhak, Israel) and Florian Oberstrass (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for detecting a short genetic variant in a test sample are described herein. In some exemplary methods, the short genetic variant is called using one or match scores, which are determined using one or more sequencing data sets obtained from a test nucleic acid molecule, wherein th...