US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH), U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS), U.S. GOVERNMENT on Nov. 3 for "Measurement of nucleic acid" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,275, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH), U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS), U.S. GOVERNMENT (Bethesda, Md.).

"Measurement of nucleic acid" was invented by Abhijit Ajit Patel (Madison, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current document is directed to methods and compositions that enable simplified, sensitive, and accurate quantification of nucleic acids, including sequence variations and epigenetic modifications. Some methods enable highly sensitive measurement of low-abundance nucleic acid variants from a complex mixture of nucleic acid molecules."

The patent was filed on Nov. 25...