ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,804, issued on April 21, was assigned to VitruvianMD PTE Ltd. (Singapore).
"Visual analysis of sperm DNA fragmentation" was invented by Ifthakaar Shaik (Sandton, South Africa), Pu-Ju Lin (Woodmead, South Africa) and Byron Alexander Jacobs (Johannesburg).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for analysing DNA fragmentation in a sperm cell by approximating the output of a pre-selected chemical assay of sperm DNA fragmentation. According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for analysing DNA fragmentation in a sperm cell by approximating the output of a pre-selected ch...