ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,428, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AGENA BIOSCIENCE INC. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for the quantitation of mitochondrial nucleic acid" was invented by Anders Olof Herman Nygren (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are products and processes for the quantitation of mitochondrial nucleic acid in a sample from a subject. In certain aspects are multiplex methods for determining dosage of mitochondrial nucleic acid relative to genomic nucleic acid for a sample from a subject including amplifying sets of mitochondrial polynucleotides and genomic polynucleotides from nucleic acid for a sample under ampli...