US Patent Issued to ENUMERIX on March 18 for "Detection and digital quantitation of multiple targets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,745, issued on March 18, was assigned to ENUMERIX INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Detection and digital quantitation of multiple targets" was invented by Eleen Yee Lam Shum (San Carlos, Calif.), Hei Mun Christina Fan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephen P. A. Fodor (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Haeun Grace Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides for devices, methods, and systems for performing a non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) digital assay upon generating at least a large number of counts per chromosome for a set of chromosomes present in a sample, where performing the NIPT digital assay can include: distri...