US Patent Issued to JAPAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SECURITY, FASMAC on March 24 for "Method for amplifying nucleotide sequence and sequence determination" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,167, issued on March 24, was assigned to JAPAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SECURITY (Tokyo) and FASMAC Co. LTD (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for amplifying nucleotide sequence and sequence determination" was invented by Masumichi Saito (Musashimurayama, Japan), Haruka Momose (Musashimurayama, Japan), Yusaku Wada (Atsugi, Japan) and Takahiro Matsudaira (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for amplifying a sequence adjacent to a specific sequence, comprising the steps of: annealing a first forward primer to the specific sequence to synthesize a complementary strand; sequentially polymerically add...