ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,082, issued on April 8, was assigned to Myriad Women's Health Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Methods of detecting DNA in a sample" was invented by Jared Robert Maguire (San Francisco), Clement S. Chu (San Francisco), Imran Saeedul Haque (San Francisco), Eric Andrew Evans (San Bruno, Calif.) and Noah Welker (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for detecting unique genetic signatures derived from markers such as, for example, mutations, somatic or germ-line, in nucleic acids obtained from biological samples. The sensitivity of the methods provides for detection of mutatio...