US Patent Issued to RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY on June 23 for "Method and system for identifying gene disorder in maternal blood" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,696, issued on June 23, was assigned to RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Method and system for identifying gene disorder in maternal blood" was invented by Noam Shomron (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Tom Rabinowitz (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fetal genotyping, comprises receiving maternal genomic DNA (gDNA) data, maternal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) data, and paternal gDNA data of a pair parenting to a fetus. The data are analyzed to identify a first set of sites at which the parents are homozygous for different alleles, and a second set at which at least one of the parents has a mutation. For...