US Patent Issued to Natera on June 23 for "Methods for simultaneous amplification of target loci" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,704, issued on June 23, was assigned to Natera Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Methods for simultaneous amplification of target loci" was invented by Matthew Rabinowitz (San Francisco), Matthew Micah Hill (Belmont, Calif.), Bernhard Zimmermann (Manteca, Calif.), Johan Baner (San Francisco), George Gemelos (Portland, Ore.), Milena Banjevic (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Allison Ryan (Belmont, Calif.), Styrmir Sigurjonsson (San Jose, Calif.) and Zachary Demko (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as meth...