US Patent Issued to MYOME on Aug. 25 for "Polygenic risk score for in vitro fertilization" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,953, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MYOME INC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Polygenic risk score for in vitro fertilization" was invented by Akash Kumar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kate M. Im (Ellicott City, Md.), Elan Bechor (New York), Luisa Galhardo (Overland Park, Kan.), Abhiram Rao (Redwood City, Calif.), Pauline Ng (Singapore) and Matthew Rabinowitz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for determining a disease risk associated with an embryo that comprise constructing the genome of the embryo based on (i) one or more genetic variants in the embryo, (ii) a paternal haplotype, (iii) a maternal haplotype (iv) a...