US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Oct. 6 for "Assay methods and kits for detecting rare sequence variants" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,432, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Assay methods and kits for detecting rare sequence variants" was invented by Fred R. Kramer (Riverdale, N.Y.) and Diana Vargas-Gold (Millburn, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to methods for analyzing nucleic acids. The disclosure provides methods of a primer-dependent amplification and detection method that is capable of amplifying and detecting in a sample as few as ten copies of at least one rare intended target sequence in the presence of abundant closely related unintended target sequences. Also pro...