US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on Jan. 20 for "Digital amplification assays for genetic instability" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,095, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Digital amplification assays for genetic instability" was invented by Dianna Maar (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for detecting genetic instability using digital amplification assays. The methods may be performed in a set of isolated volumes and generally may involve competitive hybridization of a competitor and a probe/primer with a normal allele and one or more mutant alleles of a microsatellite locus. The competitor may be configured to compete similarly with, or to outcompete, the primer/probe for...