US Patent Issued to Natera on Aug. 25 for "Methods and compositions for determining ploidy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,090, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for determining ploidy" was invented by Huseyin Eser Kirkizlar (Los Angeles), Raheleh Salari (San Carlos, Calif.), Styrmir Sigurjonsson (San Jose, Calif.), Bernhard Zimmermann (Manteca, Calif.), Allison Ryan (Belmont, Calif.) and Naresh Vankayalapati (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides improved methods, compositions, and kits for detecting ploidy of chromosome regions, e.g. for detecting cancer or a chromosomal abnormality in a gestating fetus. The methods can utilize a set of more than 200 SNPs that ar...