US Patent Issued to Verinata Health on Jan. 13 for "Sequencing methods and compositions for prenatal diagnoses" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,869, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Verinata Health Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Sequencing methods and compositions for prenatal diagnoses" was invented by Richard P. Rava (Redwood City, Calif.), Manjula Chinnappa (Foster City, Calif.), David A. Comstock (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gabrielle Heilek (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brian Kent Rhees (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for determining aneuploidy and/or fetal fraction in maternal samples comprising fetal and maternal cfDNA by massively parallel sequencing. The method comprises a novel protocol for preparing sequencing libraries that u...