US Patent Issued to BIOFIDELITY on July 14 for "Nucleic acid enrichment and detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,125, issued on July 14, was assigned to BIOFIDELITY LTD (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Nucleic acid enrichment and detection" was invented by Robert Osborne (Cambridge, Great Britain), Magdalena Stolarek-Januszkiewicz (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Barnaby Balmforth (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a hybridisation capture method based on the pyrophosphorolysis reaction. According to the present invention, there is provided a method for increasing the ratio of a first nucleic acid sequence to second nucleic acid sequence in a sample."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/...