ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,190, issued on July 7, was assigned to Mercy BioAnalytics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems, compositions, and methods for target entity detection" was invented by Joseph Charles Sedlak (Cambridge, Mass.), Laura Teresa Bortolin (Newtonville, Mass.) and Daniel Parker Salem (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides technologies for target entity detection. One aspect of the present disclosure provides technologies for detection (e.g., early detection) of a disease, disorder, or condition (e.g., cancer). In another aspect, technologies provided herein are useful for selecting and/or monitoring and/or...