US Patent Issued to QIAGEN on Oct. 6 for "Method for quantifying and/or detecting human male DNA" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,430, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QIAGEN GmbH (Hilden, Germany).

"Method for quantifying and/or detecting human male DNA" was invented by Miroslav Vranes (Hilden, Germany), Ralf Peist (Hilden, Germany), Mario Scherer (Hilden, Germany), Stefan Otto Cornelius (Hilden, Germany) and Margaretha Konig (Hilden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Oligonucleotide primers and probes for quantifying and/or detecting human male DNA in a forensic sample. The oligonucleotides are useful for amplifying a multicopy locus within the human Y-chromosome (MCL-Y) that shares at least 80% sequence identity to a sequence according to SEQ ID NO. 3 o...