US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on Dec. 16 for "Compositions, methods and kits to detect adenovirus, metapneumovirus and/or rhinovirus nucleic acids" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,655, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions, methods and kits to detect adenovirus, metapneumovirus and/or rhinovirus nucleic acids" was invented by Mehrdad R. Majlessi (Escondido, Calif.), Ankur Shah (San Diego), Amber Hillius (San Diego), Pamela Douglass (Kansas City, Mo.) and Daniel Kolk (Ramona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed disclosure is related to methods, compositions, and kits for targeting Adenovirus, Metapneumovirus, and/or Rhinovinis nucleic acid. Compositions include amplification oligomers and/or detection probe oligomers. Kits and methods comprise at least one ...