US Patent Issued to SEQUENOM on Nov. 3 for "Processes and kits for identifying aneuploidy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,272, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SEQUENOM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processes and kits for identifying aneuploidy" was invented by Mathias Ehrich (San Diego), Guy Del Mistro (San Diego), Cosmin Deciu (San Diego), Yong Qing Chen (San Diego), Ron Michael McCullough (San Diego) and Roger Chan Tim (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for identifying the presence or absence of a chromosome abnormality by which a cell-free sample nucleic acid from a subject is analyzed. In certain embodiments, provided are methods for identifying the presence or absence of a fetal chromosome abnormality in a nucleic acid from...