ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,432, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Phoenix), ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Single molecule-overlapping read analysis for minor variant mutation detection in pathogen samples" was invented by Rebecca E. Colman (Flagstaff, Ariz.), David M. Engelthaler (Flagstaff, Ariz.), James M. Schupp (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Paul Keim (Flagstaff, Ariz.), David Smith (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Antonino Catanzaro (San Diego) and Timothy Rodwell (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The p...