US Patent Issued to IMPERIAL COLLEGE INNOVATIONS on Sept. 22 for "Polymorphism (SNP) using lamp and blocking primers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,202, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to IMPERIAL COLLEGE INNOVATIONS Ltd. (London).

"Polymorphism (SNP) using lamp and blocking primers" was invented by Pantelis Georgiou (London), Kenny Malpartida Cardenas (London), Ling-Shan Yu (London), Jake Baum (London), Nicholas Miscourides (London) and Jesus Rodriguez Manzano (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to methods for detecting a first allele of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in a nucleic acid sequence under isothermal conditions using primers specific for said first allele, in particular using Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), ...