Patents by Inventor Lizhen Ma

Lizhen Ma 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: 20240182982
    Abstract: Fragmentomic features provide various properties of the sample (e.g., urine or plasma) and/or of a subject. Relative contributions or enrichment of clinically-relevant DNA (e.g., type(s) of transrenal and non-transrenal urinary cfDNA) are provided using fragmentomic features of urinary cell-free DNA. Such measurements could be used for reflecting the glomerular permeability and monitoring various diseases, e.g., kidney abnormality. The fragmentomic features can include a corrected urinary DNA concentration, size, end motifs of urinary DNA molecules, and cfDNA molecules from open chromatin regions (OCR) of one or more tissues. In addition, nuclease activities or other fragmentation processes of cfDNA are determined based on relative contributions concerning the different profiles of cfDNA cleavage, which are also used for determining contribution of cfDNA from tissue(s), level of pathology, and gestational age.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Lizhen Ma, Ze Zhou