ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,165, issued on March 24, was assigned to Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Versailles, France), Universite Paris Cite (Paris), Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Paris) and Institut Curie (Paris).

"Method for identifying one or more mutations in a hotspot mutation sequence" was invented by Marc-Henri Stern (Paris), Emmanuelle Jeannot (Meudon, France), Charlotte Proudhon (Pantin, France), Jean-Yves Pierga (Paris) and Francois-Clement Bidard (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an in vitro method for identifying and/or characterizing one or more mutations in a...