US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on June 30 for "Methods for sequencing cell-free RNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,844, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

"Methods for sequencing cell-free RNA" was invented by Lian Chye Winston Koh (Stanford, Calif.), Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, Calif.), Hei-Mun Christina Fan (Fremont, Calif.) and Wenying Pan (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a method comprises obtaining cell-free ribonucleic acid (RNA) from a plasma sample of a subject; converting the cell-free RNA into complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA), thereby producing sample cDNA; and sequencing the sample eDNA to determine a level of the sample cDNA that co...