ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,488, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Centre for Novostics (Shatin, Hong Kong).
"Efficient digital measurement of long nucleic acid fragments" was invented by Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo (Homantin, China), Kwan Chee Chan (Jordan, China), Peiyong Jiang (Pak Shek Kok, China), Wanxia Gai (Shenzhen, China) and Cheuk Yin Yu (Ma On Shan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein that include using multiplexed digital amplification reactions to measure the sizes of a plurality of nucleic acid molecules. In various embodiments, the digital amplification reactions use multiple pairs of separate forward and reverse...