Mealey's (March 26, 2021, 1:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a March 25 ruling upheld an examiner’s rejection of an application by the Leland Stanford Junior University to patent a computerized statistical method for haplotype phasing — the process by which scientists determine which parent is responsible for passing on which gene to their child....