US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for multiplex gene amplification from ultra-low DNA input amounts and uses thereof" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,856, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for multiplex gene amplification from ultra-low DNA input amounts and uses thereof" was invented by Curt Scharfe (North Haven, Conn.), Peidong Shen (Union City, Calif.) and Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of performing multiplex PCR on low and ultra-low quantities of starting template using custom primer sequences having a homotag. In some embodiments, these primers are capable of amplifying over 100 targets simultaneously and/or are capab...