ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,900, issued on July 1, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Method for determining if a tumor has a mutation in a microsatellite" was invented by Giwon Shin (Stanford, Calif.) and Hanlee P. Ji (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining if a tumor has a mutation in a microsatellite is provided. In some embodiments, the method may comprise: (a) isolating genomic DNA from a tumor sample and a non-tumor sample from the same patient to produce: i. a sample of tumor DNA and ii. a sample of non-tumor DNA, respectively, (b) without pre-amplifying the...