ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,135, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Inguran LLC (Navasota, Texas).
"Methods of estimating gamete variation" was invented by Claas Heuer (Heidmoor, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention encompasses a method of estimating a distribution or a standard deviation of breeding values or predicted transmitting abilities of gametes from an individual using population-wide estimates of linkage disequilibrium for one or more genetic markers or genes, so as to more efficiently produce offspring having breeding values or predicted transmitting abilities that equal or exceed a desired breeding value or predicted transmitting abi...