ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,630, issued on March 25, was assigned to ABS Global Inc. (DeForest, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for assessing and/or quantifying sperm cell subpopulations bearing a specific genetic signature" was invented by Elon Roti-Roti (Windsor, Wis.), Nicole Cray (Madison, Wis.), Matthias Wagner (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael Reid Botts (DeForest, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for assessing, quantifying and isolating sperm cell populations and/or subpopulations having specific genetic signatures are provided, as well as methods and systems to assess the efficacy of chromosomal differentiation processes. Compositions for iden...