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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

May. 06, 2015
Applicants:

Verinata Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);

Gpb Scientific, Llc, Richmond, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ravi Kapur, Sharon, MA (US);

Mehmet Toner, Charlestown, MA (US);

Zihua Wang, Newton, MA (US);

Martin Fuchs, Uxbridge, MA (US);

Assignees:

Verinata Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

GPB Scientific, LLC, Richmond, CA (US);

The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2018.01); C12Q 1/6883 (2018.01); G01N 33/68 (2006.01); G01N 1/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6883 (2013.01); G01N 1/30 (2013.01); G01N 33/6893 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/156 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/158 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/16 (2013.01); G01N 2800/385 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to methods for detecting, enriching, and analyzing rare cells that are present in the blood, e.g. fetal cells. The invention further features methods of analyzing rare cell(s) to determine the presence of an abnormality, disease or condition in a subject, e.g. a fetus by analyzing a cellular sample from the subject.


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