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John B. Sotomayor

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Most Active Art Unit
3662
Art Unit(s)
2201, 3646, 2202, 3662, 3642, 3641
Total Applications
2701
Issued Applications
2481
Pending Applications
70
Abandoned Applications
152

Applications

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17/529536
METHODS FOR NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL PLOIDY CALLING Nov 17, 2021 Pending
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17/454082
Analysis of chromatin using a nicking enzyme Nov 8, 2021 Issued
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18/252015
METHOD FOR PRODUCING MIRNA LIBRARIES FOR MASSIVE PARALLEL SEQUENCING Nov 7, 2021 Pending
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17/518213
Methods and systems for reducing artifactual antisense products Nov 2, 2021 Issued
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17/511454
Synthetic molecular tags for supply chain tracking Oct 25, 2021 Issued
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17/451919
METHODS OF LOWERING THE ERROR RATE OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL DNA SEQUENCING USING DUPLEX CONSENSUS SEQUENCING Oct 21, 2021 Abandoned
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17/508577
METHODS FOR NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL PLOIDY CALLING Oct 21, 2021 Abandoned
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17/502355
DETERMINING TUMOR ORIGIN Oct 14, 2021 Abandoned
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17/500204
Kit for determining nucleic acid degradation Oct 12, 2021 Issued
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17/500858
Nucleic acid detection combining amplification with fragmentation Oct 12, 2021 Issued
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17/500733
Linked paired strand sequencing Oct 12, 2021 Issued
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17/494745
Methods for preparing a DNA fraction from a biological sample for analyzing genotypes of cell-free DNA Oct 4, 2021 Issued
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17/494745
Methods for preparing a DNA fraction from a biological sample for analyzing genotypes of cell-free DNA Oct 4, 2021 Issued
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17/494745
Methods for preparing a DNA fraction from a biological sample for analyzing genotypes of cell-free DNA Oct 4, 2021 Issued
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17/494745
Methods for preparing a DNA fraction from a biological sample for analyzing genotypes of cell-free DNA Oct 4, 2021 Issued
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18/030412
Nucleic acid enrichment method Oct 3, 2021 Issued
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17/448973
METHODS OF LOWERING THE ERROR RATE OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL DNA SEQUENCING USING DUPLEX CONSENSUS SEQUENCING Sep 26, 2021 Abandoned
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17/448985
METHODS OF LOWERING THE ERROR RATE OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL DNA SEQUENCING USING DUPLEX CONSENSUS SEQUENCING Sep 26, 2021 Abandoned
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18/026255
Compositions and methods for preserving DNA methylation Sep 22, 2021 Issued
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17/480067
Nucleic acid encoding reactions Sep 19, 2021 Issued
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