ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,177, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RTX BBN Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"FAST-NA for detection and diagnostic targeting" was invented by Jacob Stuart Michael Beal (Iowa City, Iowa), Thomas Cushing Mitchell (Boston), Daniel Wyschogrod (Newton, Mass.) and Allison Jordan Taggart (Portsmouth, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one example, a method of filtering signature snippets is provided comprising identifying a group of genetic targets, obtaining a plurality of sets of one or more target signature snippets responsive to identifying the group of genetic targets, each set of one or more target sign...