US Patent Issued to Natera on Feb. 17 for "Methods for simultaneous amplification of target loci" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,086, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Methods for simultaneous amplification of target loci" was invented by Joshua Babiarz (Castro Valley, Calif.), Tudor Pompiliu Constantin (Berkeley, Calif.), Lane A. Eubank (San Carlos, Calif.), George Gemelos (Portland, Ore.), Matthew Micah Hill (Belmont, Calif.), Huseyin Eser Kirkizlar (Los Angeles), Matthew Rabinowitz (San Francisco), Onur Sakarya (Redwood City, Calif.), Styrmir Sigurjonsson (San Jose, Calif.) and Bernhard Zimmermann (Manteca, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic ...