US Patent Issued to Roche Molecular Systems on Sept. 22 for "Processes for calculating phased fetal genomic sequences" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,106, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Processes for calculating phased fetal genomic sequences" was invented by John Stuelpnagel (San Jose, Calif.), Craig Struble (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides processes for calculating phased genomic sequences of the fetal genome using fetal DNA obtained from a maternal sample. The processes and systems of the present invention utilize novel technological and computational approaches to detect fetal genomic sequences and determine the phased heritable genomic sequ...