ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,081, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Pleno Inc. and Exact Sciences Corp..

"Encoded endonuclease assays" was invented by Jeffrey Brodin (San Diego), Lorenzo Berti (San Diego), Donald Brian Eidson (San Diego), Christian Schlegel (San Diego), Angela Blum (San Diego), Rachel Schowalter (San Diego), Ludovic Vincent (San Diego), Pieter Van Rooyen (San Diego), Gavin Stone (San Diego) and Hatim T. Allawi (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for conducting an assay on a set of nucleic acid targets, including: combining a set of dual probes with a sample composition potentially comprising a set of nucleic aci...