ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,107, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MIRATERRA INC. (Lewes, Del.).

"System and method for nucleotide analysis and prediction of disease risk" was invented by Diane Wu (San Francisco) and Poornima Parameswaran (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the detection of pathogens and other microbes using nucleotide analysis is described. Aligned and unaligned nucleotide sequences are utilized to predict the presence or absence of pathogens and other microbes."

The patent was filed on July 23, 2020, under Application No. 16/937,578.

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