US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, GRAIL on July 28 for "Methods and systems for tumor detection" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,553, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, Hong Kong) and GRAIL Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for tumor detection" was invented by Eugeni Namsaraev (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo (Homantin, China), Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu (Shatin, China), Kwan Chee Chan (Jordan, China), Peiyong Jiang (Pak Shek Kok, China), Kun Sun (Shatin, China) and Wai Kei Lam (Kowloon, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to improve the positive predictive value for cancer detection using cell-free nucleic acid samples. Various embodiments are directed to applications (e.g., diag...