US Patent Issued to Roche Sequencing Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Immune repertoire profiling by primer extension target enrichment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,397, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Immune repertoire profiling by primer extension target enrichment" was invented by Jan Berka (Pleasanton, Calif.), Richard Dannebaum (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Brian Godwin (Livermore, Calif.) and Joseph Platzer (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a method of assessing a mammalian immune repertoire by primer extension target enrichment (PETE). Methods and compositions for assessing an immune repertoire and the status of additional genetic markers are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Sept. 16, 2020, under Appli...