US Patent Issued to Murdoch Childrens Research Institute on July 14 for "Diagnostic assay for tissue transplantation status" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,135, issued on July 14, was assigned to Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (Parkville, Australia).

"Diagnostic assay for tissue transplantation status" was invented by Howard Robert Slater (Parkville, Australia), Damien Luis Bruno (Airport West, Australia) and Devika Ganesamoorthy (Epping, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting circulatory nucleic acids from a transplanted tissue in a transplant recipient, the method comprising: amplifying circulatory nucleic acids from a transplanted tissue in a blood sample from the transplant recipient, and detecting amplification of a copy number deletion (CND) polymorph...