US Patent Issued to Sophia Genetics on Sept. 8 for "Methods for detecting copy-number variations in next-generation sequencing" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,658, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sophia Genetics S.A. (Rolle, Switzerland).

"Methods for detecting copy-number variations in next-generation sequencing" was invented by Dmitri Ivanov (Pully, Switzerland) and Zhenyu Xu (Nyon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Copy Number Variants (CNV) detection methods described herein may efficiently integrate CNV detection into the workflow for a next generation sequencer (NGS) data processing, in parallel with SNP and INDEL variant calling. CNV detection methods as described herein may be performed by analyzing the coverage pattern across a suitable set of genomic regions or amplic...