ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,618, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nino Guy Cassuto (Boulogne, France).

"Method for selecting spermatozoa, in particular for medically assisted procreation (MAP)" was invented by Nino Guy Cassuto (Boulogne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for analysing a spermatozoon, comprising a step of extracting the nucleic acids from the spermatozoa contained in a first sample of spermatozoa previously obtained from a human subject; a step of measuring the level of expression of at least one marker gene chosen from the group consisting of AURKA, CFAP46, CCDC60, CCDC88B, HDAC4, CACNA1C, CACNA...