ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,508, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Alamar Biosciences Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Nucleic acid linked immune-sandwich assay (NULISA)" was invented by Yuling Luo (San Ramon, Calif.), Wei Feng (Union City, Calif.), Adrian Grzybowski (San Leandro, Calif.), Yiyuan Yin (Fremont, Calif.) and Shiping Chen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are highly sensitive immunoassays that utilize a capture/release mechanism to reduce non-specific binding and achieve detection with attomolar-level sensitivity. Kits that can be used for carrying out these highly sensitive immunoassays are also disclosed herein."

The pate...