ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,870, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon Virginia Inc. (Newport News, Va.).
"Partition-free digital PCR (dPCR) system" was invented by Hanyoup Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.), Julia Pittaluga (Virginia Beach, Va.), Joseph Myrick (West Point, Va.), Jeremy Schreiber (Williamsburg, Va.), Scott Sundberg (Yorktown, Va.) and Yoichi Murakami (Newport News, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for partition-free quantification of molecules. The methods and systems provided allow a sample to be amplified such that discrete amplification spots can be analyzed to quantify the number of molecules w...