US Patent Issued to FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on April 14 for "Using hairpin formation to identify DNA and RNA sequences having a target nucleic acid sequence" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,008, issued on April 14, was assigned to FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Using hairpin formation to identify DNA and RNA sequences having a target nucleic acid sequence" was invented by Alan R. Lemmon (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "DNA or RNA including a target nucleotide sequence are amplified by placing a probe nucleotide sequence on the DNA or RNA. The probe nucleotide sequence is complementary to the target nucleotide sequence. The interaction between the probe nucleotide sequence and target nucleotide sequence causes the single-stranded DNA to form a hairpin. The hairpi...