US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Dec. 9 for "Method for quantifying DNA fragments in a sample by size" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,438, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Method for quantifying DNA fragments in a sample by size" was invented by Gaorav Gupta (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Bhishamjit S. Chera (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Sunil Kumar (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are DNA amplification methods for quantifying DNA fragments of a target DNA in a sample by size. This can be used, for example, to detect tumor-derived viral DNA in blood sample and distinguish it from larger viral DNA from non-tumor sources. In particular, disclosed herein are methods of detecting, m...