US Patent Issued to Guardant Health on May 19 for "Compositions and methods for isolating cell-free DNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,882, issued on May 19, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for isolating cell-free DNA" was invented by Andrew Kennedy (San Diego), Ariel Jaimovich (Redwood City, Calif.), Matthew Schultz (Redwood City, Calif.) and William J. Greenleaf (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for isolating DNA, such as cell-free DNA (cfDNA). In some embodiments, the cell-free DNA is from a subject having or suspected of having cancer and/or the cell-free DNA comprises DNA produced by a tumor. In some embodiments, the DNA isolated by the method is ca...