US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on May 12 for "Variant classification through high-confidence mutation detection from fluorescence signals measured with a multiple mutation assay" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,402, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Variant classification through high-confidence mutation detection from fluorescence signals measured with a multiple mutation assay" was invented by Steven Okino (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for SARS-CoV-2 variant classification through mutation detection from qPCR fluorescence signals. The system receives fluorescence signals, wherein a first fluorescence signal indicates quantitative presence of a first genomic region as a control for SARS-CoV-2, and a second fluorescence signal indicates quantitative pr...