US Patent Issued to ROCHE SEQUENCING SOLUTIONS on June 23 for "Detection of microsatellite instability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,051, issued on June 23, was assigned to ROCHE SEQUENCING SOLUTIONS INC (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Detection of microsatellite instability" was invented by Fergal Casey (Pleasanton, Calif.), Daniel M. Klass (Livermore, Calif.), Alexander Lovejoy (Newark, Calif.), Seyed Hamid Mirebrahim (Dublin, Calif.), Amrita Pati (San Ramon, Calif.) and Hao Wang (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detecting MSI are provided. Also provided are methods for enriching human genomic DNA for microsatellite loci. Additionally, an oligonucleotide array for detecting MSI is provided. In some embodiments, the method for detectin...