US Patent Issued to AGENA BIOSCIENCE on Oct. 28 for "Multiplexed method for the identification and quantitation of minor alleles and polymorphisms" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,722, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AGENA BIOSCIENCE INC. (San Diego).

"Multiplexed method for the identification and quantitation of minor alleles and polymorphisms" 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 detecting the presence or absence of minor nucleic acid species in a sample containing a mixture of minor nucleic acid species and one or more major nucleic acid species, where the amount (frequency or copy number) of the minor nucleic acid species is less than that of the major nucleic acid species. Certain methods include amplifying th...