US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on Aug. 5 for "Probes and methods for measuring tandem repeats" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,606, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Probes and methods for measuring tandem repeats" was invented by Wayne Frasch (Phoenix) and Fusheng Xiong (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to nucleic acid probes and kits for determining the length of a region of tandem repeats in a subject's genome and methods of using the DNA probes for determining the length of a region of tandem repeats in a subject's genome. In some embodiments, the region of tandem repeats in telomeres."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2021, under App...