US Patent Issued to SEQUENOM on Jan. 27 for "Methods and processes for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,758, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SEQUENOM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and processes for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations" was invented by Dirk Johannes Van Den Boom (Encinitas, Calif.), Charles R. Cantor (Del Mar, Calif.), Sung Kyun Kim (San Diego), Zeljko Dzakula (San Diego) and Cosmin Deciu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology herein relates in part to methods, processes and apparatuses for analyzing nucleic acid sequence reads, where the sequence reads are partial sequence reads having one or more nucleotide species from a subset of the nucleotide species present in a sample nucleic acid at some ...