ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,163, issued on March 24, was assigned to Foundation Medicine Inc. (Boston).

"Compositions and methods for evaluating genomic alterations" was invented by Geoffrey Alan Otto (Cambridge, Mass.), Travis Clark (Winchester, Mass.), Doron Lipson (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniel Lieber (Needham, Mass.) and David Fabrizio (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods of evaluating genomic alterations in a sample are disclosed."

The patent was filed on June 11, 2019, under Application No. 16/437,974.

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