ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,289, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IMBA-INSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE BIOTECHNOLOGIE GMBH (Vienna).

"Method for parallel nucleic acid analysis" was invented by Ulrich Elling (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria), Ramesh Yelagandula (Vienna), Alexander Stark (Vienna) and Maria Luisa Cochella (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a nucleic acid in a plurality of samples, including a) providing analyte nucleic acids from samples in separate containers, the containers are in a subset array; b) amplifying acids by reaction using primers hybridized to the acids, forward and reverse primers of the primer pair both include an ada...