US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, GRAIL on April 7 for "Methods using characteristics of urinary and other DNA" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,511, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, Hong Kong) and GRAIL Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods using characteristics of urinary and other DNA" was invented by Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo (Hong Kong SAR, China), Kwan Chee Chan (Hong Kong SAR, China), Peiyong Jiang (Hong Kong SAR, China), Suk Hang Cheng (Hong Kong SAR, China), Ze Zhou (Hong Kong SAR, China), Tingting Xie (Hong Kong SAR, China), Guangya Wang (Hong Kong SAR, China) and Chen Ding (Hong Kong SAR, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ends of cell-free DNA fragments may be used for analysis of a biological sample. In some embodiments...