ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,106, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Inti Taiwan Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Assays and methods to assist in vitro fertilization" was invented by An Hsu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Pei-Yi Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yu-Ling Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ko-Wen Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Kuan-Chun Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods for determining an endometrial status using a sample, for example, a blood plasma sample, from a subject, comprising: (a) performing an assay on the blood sample from the subject to determine a miRNA expression profile, wherein the miRNA expre...