US Patent Issued to Centre for Novostics on Sept. 22 for "Fragmentation for measuring methylation and disease" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,208, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Centre for Novostics (Shatin, Hong Kong).

"Fragmentation for measuring methylation and disease" was invented by Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo (Homantin, China), Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu (Shatin, China), Kwan Chee Chan (Mei Foo Sun Chuen, China), Peiyong Jiang (Pak Shek Kok, China), Qing Zhou (Tai Po, China), Guannan Kang (Shatin, China), Rong Qiao (Shatin, China) and Lu Ji (Tai Po, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fragmentation of cell-free DNA molecules is measured and used for various purposes, including determining methylation, e.g., at a particular site of a DNA molecule, at a particular genomic site...