US Patent Issued to AREX LIFE SCIENCES on Jan. 28 for "Methods for diagnosing fertility of ejaculates for artificial insemination" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,021, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AREX LIFE SCIENCES LLC (Watertown, Mass.).

"Methods for diagnosing fertility of ejaculates for artificial insemination" was invented by Barb A. Cohen (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accord with the present invention, the fertility quality of an ejaculate can be determined by assaying sperm, in aliquots of the ejaculate or of an ejaculate produced previously by the same male, at intervals over a period of time. Fertility quality is determined by the number of times the level of expression of a marker on the sperm goes through a maximum level of expression during the period of...