US Patent Issued to VERINATA HEALTH on Feb. 17 for "Method for determining copy number variations" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,084, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VERINATA HEALTH INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Method for determining copy number variations" was invented by Richard P. Rava (Redwood City, Calif.) and Brian Kent Rhees (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining copy number variations (CNV) of a sequence of interest in a test sample that comprises a mixture of nucleic acids that are known or are suspected to differ in the amount of one or more sequence of interest. The method comprises a statistical approach that accounts for accrued variability stemming from process-related, interchromosomal and inter-sequencing v...