ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,206, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Stilla Technologies (Villejuif, France).

"Multiplex drop-off digital polymerase chain reaction methods" was invented by Barbara Andre (Paris), Remi Dangla (Paris), Jordan Madic (Villejuif, France) and Allison Mallory (Villejuif, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides multiplex digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) assays such as multiplex drop-off dPCR assays, methods, systems, and kits. The methods described herein are useful in a variety of applications, such as detection of microsatellite instability and quantification of site-specific genome-edited produ...