US Patent Issued to Exact Sciences on Feb. 4 for "Compositions for detecting epigenetic modifications" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,389, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Exact Sciences Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Compositions for detecting epigenetic modifications" was invented by Manon Van Engeland (Maastricht, Netherlands), Manon Adriaan De Bruine (Maastricht, Netherlands), Arjan Griffioen (Maastricht, Netherlands), Joost Louwagie (Sart-Tilman, Belgium), Katja Bierau (Sart-Tilman, Belgium), Gontran Brichard (Sart-Tilman, Belgium), Gaetan Otto (Sart-Tilman, Belgium) and Maarten Penning (Sart-Tilman, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a predisposition to, or the incidence of, cancer in a sample comprises detecting an epigenetic change in at ...