US Patent Issued to Exact Sciences, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Sept. 16 for "Compositions and methods for performing methylation detection assays" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,050, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Exact Sciences Corp. (Madison, Wis.) and Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Compositions and methods for performing methylation detection assays" was invented by David Alan Ahlquist (Rochester, Minn.), William Russell Taylor (Lake City, Minn.), Douglas W. Mahoney (Rochester, Minn.), Graham P. Lidgard (Middleton, Wis.), Hatim T. Allawi (Middleton, Wis.) and Abram Michael Vaccaro (Rio, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology relating to performing methylation assays. In particular, the technology relates to internal controls for met...