US Patent Issued to Veracyte on May 13 for "Methods for classification of tissue samples as positive or negative for cancer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,503, issued on May 13, was assigned to Veracyte Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Methods for classification of tissue samples as positive or negative for cancer" was invented by Giulia C. Kennedy (San Francisco), Bonnie H. Anderson (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Darya I. Chudova (San Jose, Calif.), Eric T. Wang (Milpitas, Calif.), Hui Wang (San Bruno, Calif.), Moraima Pagan (San Francisco), Nusrat Rabbee (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Jonathan I. Wilde (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for molecular profiling and cancer diagnostics, including but not l...