ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,550, issued on July 28, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Single-molecule sequence and high sensitivity methylation analysis for tissue-specific analysis" was invented by Carsten Dietrich (Nuremberg, Germany) and Andreas Emanuel Posch (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of determining one or more modification(s) of the nucleic acid sequence of at least one nucleic acid and at least one epigenetic alteration of the at least one nucleic acid in a sample of a subject. The sample is derived from a body fluid of the subject. The methods link the one or more modification(s) to a sp...