US Patent Issued to CHEMRING SENSORS AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS on July 21 for "Devices and methods for nucleic acid identification in samples" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,885, issued on July 21, was assigned to CHEMRING SENSORS AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INC. (Dulles, Va.).

"Devices and methods for nucleic acid identification in samples" was invented by Neal G. Satterly (Tega Cay, S.C.) and Kevin P. Pfeuffer (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for nucleic acid identification of material in a sample includes a microfluidics system, including a movable cartridge, and a heat source. The movable cartridge assembly includes at least one target-specific set of reagent components and a set of RCA-LAMP reaction componen...