US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on June 30 for "Methods of analyzing cell free nucleic acids and applications thereof" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,893, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods of analyzing cell free nucleic acids and applications thereof" was invented by Maximilian Diehn (San Carlos, Calif.), Arash Ash Alizadeh (San Mateo, Calif.), Jacob J. Chabon (Arvada, Colo.), David M. Kurtz (San Carlos, Calif.) and Mohammad Shahrokh Esfahani (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and materials to detect neoplasms from a biopsy are described. Processes and materials to build a sequencing library are described. Processes and material to perform targeted sequencing a...