US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on March 3 for "Methods for profiling and quantitating cell-free RNA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,679, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods for profiling and quantitating 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: "The invention generally relates to methods for assessing a neurological disorder by characterizing circulating nucleic acids in a blood sample. According to certain embodiments, methods for assessing a neurological disorder include obtaining RNA present in a bloo...