US Patent Issued to Natera on Feb. 17 for "Methods for enriching and sequencing nucleic acids for non-invasive cancer testing" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,083, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Methods for enriching and sequencing nucleic acids for non-invasive cancer testing" was invented by Allison Ryan (Belmont, Calif.), Styrmir Sigurjonsson (San Jose, Calif.), Milena Banjevic (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), George Gemelos (Portland, Ore.), Matthew Hill (Belmont, Calif.), Johan Baner (San Francisco), Matthew Rabinowitz (San Francisco) and Zachary Demko (San Francisco).

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