US Patent Issued to GUARDANT HEALTH on Aug. 4 for "Identification of somatic or germline origin for cell-free DNA" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,906, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GUARDANT HEALTH INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identification of somatic or germline origin for cell-free DNA" was invented by Richard B. Lanman (Los Altos, Calif.) and Geoffrey R. Oxnard (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods to detect somatic or germline variants from cell-free DNA (cfDNA). Generally, the systems and methods comprise receiving sequencing information from cfDNA from said subject, determining whether measures are above or below a threshold; and classifying each as being of somatic origin or classifying each locus as being of germlin...