US Patent Issued to GRAIL on March 17 for "Identifying methylation patterns that discriminate or indicate a cancer condition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,051, issued on March 17, was assigned to GRAIL Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Identifying methylation patterns that discriminate or indicate a cancer condition" was invented by Collin Melton (Menlo Park, Calif.), Earl Hubbell (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Oliver Claude Venn (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of identifying methylation patterns discriminating or indicating a cancer condition are provided. First and second datasets are obtained. Each dataset comprises a plurality of fragment methylation patterns determined by methylation sequencing of nucleic acids obtained from a first or second set of subjects ...