US Patent Issued to Enumera Molecular on June 30 for "Methods, systems, and compositions for counting nucleic acid molecules" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,833, issued on June 30, was assigned to Enumera Molecular Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Methods, systems, and compositions for counting nucleic acid molecules" was invented by Matthew Sekedat (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jeffrey Buis (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ronald David Beaubien (Jackson, Mich.), Sharat Singh (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Jeff Perry (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods, systems, and kits for detecting and quantifying variations in numbers of molecules, particularly variations in gene dosage, e.g., due to gene duplication, or to variations from the normal euploid complement of chromosomes, e.g., tr...