ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,610, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Veracyte SD Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for preprocessing target data and generating predictions using a machine learning model" was invented by Christine Buerki (Vancouver, Canada), Anamaria Crisan (Vancouver, Canada), Elai Davicioni (La Jolla, Calif.), Nicholas George Erho (Vancouver, Canada), Mercedeh Ghadessi (New Westminster, Canada), Robert B. Jenkins (Rochester, Minn.) and Ismael A. Vergara Correa (West Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a machine learni...