Patents by Inventor Alexander Weaver Blocker

Alexander Weaver Blocker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20190316209
    Abstract: A predictive cancer model generates a cancer prediction for an individual of interest by analyzing values of one or more types of features that are derived from cfDNA obtained from the individual. Specifically, cfDNA from the individual is sequenced to generate sequence reads using one or more physical assays, examples of which include a small variant sequencing assay, whole genome sequencing assay, and methylation sequencing assay. The sequence reads of the physical assays are processed through corresponding computational analyses to generate each of small variant features, whole genome features, and methylation features. The values of features can be provided to a predictive cancer model that generates a cancer prediction. In some embodiments, the values of different types of features can be separately provided into different predictive models. Each separate predictive model can output a score that can serve as input into an overall model that outputs the cancer prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Earl Hubbell, Samuel S. Gross, Darya Filippova, Ling Shen, Oliver Claude Venn, Alexander Weaver Blocker, Nan Zhang, Tara Maddala, Alex Aravanis, Qinwen Liu, Anton Valouev, Virgil Nicula