US Patent Issued to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings on Aug. 18 for "Chromosomal and sub-chromosomal copy number variation detection" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,050, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Burlington, N.C.).

"Chromosomal and sub-chromosomal copy number variation detection" was invented by Qiandong Zeng (Burlington, N.C.), Winnie Xin (Burlington, N.C.), Neil Russell (Burlington, N.C.), Chen Xu (San Diego) and Kenneth Phillips (Burlington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to assessment of genetic variation, and in particular to techniques for detection of chromosomal and sub-chromosomal copy number variations. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method is provided for detecting a presence or absence of ...