US Patent Issued to Molecular Loop on Sept. 29 for "Methods for copy number determination" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,476, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Molecular Loop Corp. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Methods for copy number determination" was invented by Mark Umbarger (Brookline, Mass.) and Eric D. Boyden (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to a method for determining carrier or disease status with respect to a particular disease or condition. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve obtaining a sample including nucleic acid from a subject. The nucleic acid includes a genomic locus that is diagnostic for an autosomal recessive disease. The nucleic acid is captured and isolated from the samp...