US Patent Issued to BIOFIRE DIAGNOSTICS, BIOFIRE DEFENSE on Oct. 27 for "Self-contained nucleic acid processing" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,692, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BIOFIRE DIAGNOSTICS LLC (Salt Lake City) and BIOFIRE DEFENSE LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Self-contained nucleic acid processing" was invented by Kyle K. Johnson (Eagle Mountain, Utah), Owen D. Brimhall (South Jordan, Utah) and Jonathan J. Politis (Riverton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instruments and methods for amplifying nucleic acids in a sample provided in a flexible, self-contained, substantially closed sample container."

The patent was filed on July 9, 2021, under Application No. 17/372,082.

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