ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,217, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SANTERSUS AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Method for isolating and analyzing cell free DNA" was invented by Kirill Surkov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Simon Tallett (Forch, Switzerland) and Andrew Aswani (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods of detecting substantially all types of cell free DNA (cfDNA) in biological samples, including nucleosome-bound cfDNA, exosome-bound cfDNA and unbound cfDNA (including double stranded DNA (dsDNA), single stranded DNA (ssDNA) and oligonucleotides), for diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases caused by, or correlated with, incr...