US Patent Issued to AGENA BIOSCIENCE on May 19 for "Products and processes for multiplex nucleic acid identification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,865, issued on May 19, was assigned to AGENA BIOSCIENCE INC. (San Diego).

"Products and processes for multiplex nucleic acid identification" was invented by Christiane Honisch (La Jolla, Calif.), Dirk Van Den Boom (Encinitas, Calif.), Michael Mosko (Poway, Calif.) and Anders Nygren (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are products and processes for detecting the presence or absence of multiple target nucleic acids. Certain methods include amplifying the target nucleic acids, or portion thereof; extending oligonucleotides that specifically hybridize to the amplicons, where the extended oligonucleotides include a ca...